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Tobacco or health? : physiological and social damages caused by tobacco smoking /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haustein, K.-O
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2003]
Subjects:
Smoking > adverse effects.
Tobacco > adverse effects.
Nicotine > pharmacology.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Tobacco Use Disorder > therapy.
Table of Contents:
  • History of tobacco
  • Epidemiology of tobacco dependence
  • Tobacco constituents and additives
  • Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of nicotine
  • Smoking and lung disease
  • Cardiovascular disease, disturbances of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis
  • Other organ systems
  • Smoking and pregnancy
  • Passive smoking
  • Non-drug treatments to promote smoking cessation
  • Pharmacotherapy of nicotine dependence
  • Primary prevention
  • Tobacco industry, advertising and advertising bans
  • Society, politics and the tobacco industry