| Description |
738 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / C. Everett Koop -- Tobacco: History. Evolution of knowledge of the smoking epidemic / Sir Richard Doll -- The great studies of smoking and disease in the twentieth century / Michael J. Thun and S. J. Henley -- Dealing with health fears : Cigarette advertising in the United States in the twentieth century / Lynn T. Kozlowski and Richard J. O'Connor -- Market manipulation : How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers / Melanie Wakefield -- In Their Own Words : An epoch of deceit and deception / Channing Robertson and Richard Hurt -- Tobacco : Composition. The changing cigarette: chemical studies and bioassays / Ilse Hoffmann and Dieter Hoffmann -- Tobacco carcinogenesis : Mechanisms and biomarkers / Stephen S. Hecht -- Nicotine and addiction. Pharmacology of tobacco addiction / Jack E. Henningfield and Neal L. Benowitz -- Manipulating product design to reinforce tobacco addiction / Geoffrey Ferris Wayne and Carrie M. Carpenter -- Nicotine dosing characteristics across products / Mirjana V. Djordjevic -- Tobacco around the world. Tobacco smoking and tobacco-related harm in the European Union with the special attention to the new EU member states / Witold Zatonski, Marta Manczuk -- The epidemic in India / Prakash C. Gupta and Cecily S. Ray -- The epidemic in China / Richard Peto, Zheng-ming Chen and Jillian Boreham -- Tobacco Control in Korea / Jae-Gahb Park ... [et al.] -- Tobacco and health. Global burden. The hazards of smoking and the benefits of stopping : Cancer mortality and overall mortality / Richard Peto -- Passive smoking and health / Jonathan M. Samet -- Adolescent smoking / John P. Pierce, Janet M Distefan and David Hill -- Tobacco and women / Amanda Amos and Judith Mackay -- Tobacco and cancer. Cancer of the prostate / Fabio Levi and Carlo La Vecchia -- Laryngeal cancer / Paolo Boffetta -- Smoking and cancer of the oesophagus / Eva Negri -- Tobacco use and cancer of the oral cavity / Tongzhang Zheng -- Smoking and stomach cancer / David Zaridze -- Tobacco and colorectal cancer / E. Giovanucci -- Tobacco and cervical neoplasia / Jack Cuzick, Maribel Almonte and Anne Szarewski -- Smoking and pancreatic cancer / Patrick Maisonneuve -- Smoking and lung cancer / Peter Boyle and Graham Giles -- Active and passive smoking and cancer of the breast / Areti Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos -- Smoking and ovarian cancer / Crystal N. Holick and Harvey A. Risch -- Smoking, hormone concentrations and ovarian cancer / Paul D. Terry, Thomas E. Rohan and Elisabete Weiderpass -- Tobacco and cardiovascular disease -- Tobacco and cardiovascular disease / Konrad Jamrozik -- Tobacco and respiratory disease. Chronic obstructive lung disease / David Burns -- Tobacco and other diseases / Allan Hackshaw -- Tobacco and alcohol. Interaction of tobacco with other risk factors / Albert B. Lowenfels and Patrick Maisonneuve -- Tobacco control: successes and failures. Roles of tobacco litigation in societal change / Richard A. Daynard -- The adoption of smoke-free policies and their effectiveness / Maria Leon-Roux and John P. Pierce -- Advancing tobacco control by effective evaluation / Ron Borland and K. Michael Cummings -- Global tobacco policy / Nigel Gray -- Treatment of dependence. Treatment of tobacco dependence / Robyn L. Richmond and Nicholas Zwar -- Harm Reduction. Tobacco harm reduction / Dorothy Hatsukami and Mark Parascandola -- Advocacy and activism in the real world. Influencing politicians to implement comprehensive tobacco control: the power of news media / Simon Chapman -- Overview of regulatory efforts. Origins and status of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC) / Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva and Douglas Bettcher -- WHO : Coordinating international policy in tobacco control / Raman Minhas and Douglas Bettcher |
| Summary |
"...comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the etiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases. It also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Tobacco and public health : science and policy. 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nicotine addiction -- Treatment.
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Tobacco use -- Government policy.
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Tobacco use -- Prevention.
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Tobacco use -- Health aspects.
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Tobacco -- Law and legislation.
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Tobacco -- Physiological effect.
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Tobacco -- Toxicology.
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Tobacco Use Disorder -- complications.
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Public Policy.
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Tobacco.
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| Author |
Boyle, P. (Peter)
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| LC no. |
2010004772 |
| ISBN |
9780199566655 |
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