Tobacco and health
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Tobacco and health
（British medical bulletin, v. 52,
Published for the British Council by the Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Tobacco smoking is now generally accepted as the most important cause of premature death and of much chronic ill health in most industrialized countries. In recent years - fostered by ruthless marketing by the multinational tobacco companies - the habit has been increasing in many developing countries, which will add a further burden of smoking-related disease to their already heavy burdens of communicable disease and malnutrition. Tobacco smoking is also increasing in many Eastern European countries, threatening to worsen a health record that is already causing much international concern. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the effects of smoking both on smokers and on those exposed involuntarily to smoke in the environment. It also reviews the strategy of the tobacco industry in its efforts to promote smoking, and examines in detail the methods available to health workers and to governments for the controlling the epidemic. It should serve as a resource for academics, a guide for health administrators, and as ammunition for the many active compaigners throughout the world who are seeking to bring an end to this tragic and preventable pandemic of disease and death.
Table of Contents
- Cigarette smoking - an epidemiological overview, Nicholas J. Wald and A.K. Hackshaw
- mortality from smoking worldwide, Richard Peto et al
- environmental tobacco smoke, Malcolm R. Law and A.K. Hackshaw
- cancers weakly related to smoking, Richard Doll
- smokeless tobacco, Goeran Pershagen
- beneficial effects of nicotine and cigarette smoking - the real, the possible and the spurious, John A. Baron
- women and smoking, Amanda Amos
- children and smoking - the family circle, Anne Charlton
- tobacco control - overview, Donald Reid
- the ethics of tobacco advertising and advertising bans, Simon Chapman
- price and consumption of tobacco, Joy Townsend
- tobacco and the law - the state of the art, Gillian Howard
- strategies for smoking cessation, Jonathan Foulds
- 40 years on - a war to recognize and win - how the tobacco industry has survived the revelations on smoking and health, David Pollock
- tobacco industry tactics, Edward L. Sweda Jr and Richard A. Daynard
- product modification, Robert E. Waller and Peter Froggatt
- tobacco and the developing world, Judith Mackay and John Crofton.
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