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Die vorliegende Monographie stellt die Auswirkungen des Rauchens auf die menschliche Gesundheit eindringlich dar. Basierend auf den neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen schließt dieses Buch eine Lücke in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Dabei werden einerseits die durch Tabak verursachten Erkrankungen detailliert beschrieben. Andererseits zeigen die Autoren neben Präventionsmaßnahmen insbesondere für Kinder und Jugendliche verschiedene Therapiemöglichkeiten mit ihren Vor- und Nachteilen auf, um dem Raucher den Nikotinentzug zu erleichtern.Das übersichtlich und systematisch gegliederte Buch behandelt folgende Themen: Geschichte des Tabaks; Epidemiologie der Tabakabhängigkeit; Tabakinhalts- und Zusatzstoffe; Pharmakologie und Pharmakokinetik; Tabak und Kanzerogenese; Erankungen durch Tabak; Rauchen und Schwangerschaft; Passivrauchen; Nichtmedikamentöse Entwöhnung; Medikamentöse Therapie; Primärpräventionsmaßnahmen; Tabakindustrie und Werbung; Gesellschaft und Politik.

This book comprehensively summarizes the adverse effects of tobacco smoking on human health. The current second edition has integrated a large set of new data that have been published in numerous scientifc studies and meta-analyses over the past few years. Unfortunately, the harmful sequelae of tobacco smoking are played down by the ind- try and politicians in many industrialized countries. However, about 800,000 people/year in the EU die from the immediate consequences of smoking. The particularly insidious feature of tobacco consumption is that smoking-attributable harmful effects on health do not generally become apparent until three or four decades after smoking initiation. Although some positive changes in the legislative handling of tobacco have appeared in the past fve years, we still need to form a pact, sealed by politicians, the medical prof- sionals, teachers and the media, to target the problem across nations. In this respect, a minority of countries, including the US and the UK, have given positive examples. There are four areas that need to be improved in future: (1) strict bans on tobacco adv- tisement on a global level, (2) better measures to protect against side-stream (passive) smoke exposure, (3) establishment of prevention programs, especially for children and (4) tre- ment of tobacco addiction.

"Science tends to generalize, and generaliza­ tions mean simplifications . . . . And generaliza­ tions are also more satisfying to the mind than details. Of course, details and generalizations must be in proper balance: Generalizations can be reached only from details, while it is the generalization which gives value and interest to the detail:'' . . . (A. Szent-Gyorgy, Science 1964) The first edition of this book, published in German as Tabak­ abhiingigkeit in 2001, was prompted by the fact that no single volume was available in Germany or elsewhere summarising the adverse repercussions of cigarette smoking on human health. As far as my own research was able to ascertain, the last comprehensive work dealing with this subject was writ­ ten in Germany by the Dresden internist, F. Lickint, whose Tabak und Organismus was published in 1939 by the Hip­ pokrates-Verlag. All subsequent monographs in this field have tended to focus on detailed aspects, and there has been no shortage of publications on subjects such as how smokers can quit smoking, healthy eating for smokers etc. Friends and colleagues abroad have urged me to prepare an English­ language version of Tabakabhiingigkeit. In gladly complying with this suggestion, I have intentionally prepared an up­ dated and slightly enlarged new edition, taking account of the rapidly proliferating literature on the subject up to the start of 2002. The harmful sequelae of smoking are played down by politicians in many industrialised countries, including Ger­ many.