Tobacco and Public Health: Science and PolicyPeter Boyle Oxford University Press, 2004 - 798 pàgines This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology 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. The book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents. The editors are an international group distinguished in the field of tobacco related diseases, epidemiology, and tobacco control. The contributors are world experts drawn from the various clinical fields. This major reference text gives a unique overview of one of the major public health problems in both the developed and developing world. The book is directed at an international public health and epidemiology audience includng health economists and those interested in tobacco control. |
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Evolution of knowledge of the smoking epidemic | 3 |
The great studies of smoking and disease in the twentieth century | 17 |
Cigarette advertising in the United States in | 37 |
Chemical studies and bioassays | 53 |
Human uptake and DNA interactions | 93 |
Pharmacology of nicotine addiction | 129 |
Behavioral pharmacology of nicotine reinforcement | 149 |
Addiction by design | 167 |
Tobacco use and risk of oral cancer | 399 |
Smoking and stomach cancer | 433 |
Smoking and cervical neoplasia | 459 |
Tobacco and pancreas cancer | 479 |
Tobacco smoking and cancer of the breast | 503 |
Endometrial cancer | 523 |
Tobacco and cardiovascular disease | 549 |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 579 |
Nicotine dosing characteristics across tobacco products | 181 |
Tobacco in Great Britain | 207 |
The epidemic of tobacco use in China | 215 |
Poland | 235 |
The epidemic in India | 253 |
More than a health threat | 267 |
The future worldwide health effects of current | 281 |
Adolescent smoking | 315 |
Tobacco and women | 329 |
Cancer of the prostate | 355 |
Smoking and cancer of the oesophagus | 383 |
Smoking and other disorders | 593 |
Genes nicotine addiction smoking behaviour and cancer | 623 |
Tobacco and alcohol interaction | 643 |
Global tobacco control policy | 659 |
A brief history of legislation to control the tobacco epidemic | 677 |
Roles of tobacco litigation in societal change | 695 |
Effective interventions to reduce smoking | 733 |
Treatment of tobacco dependence | 751 |
Controlling cigarette emissions | 765 |
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