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Tobacco or Health? - Physiological and Social Damages Caused by Tobacco Smoking (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Tobacco or Health? - Physiological and Social Damages Caused by Tobacco Smoking (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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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.
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