Tobacco or Health? Physiological and Social Damages Caused by Tobacco Smoking
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 224.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
22.10.2009
Abbildungen
68 schwarz-weiße und 32 farbige Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße und 4 farbige Fotos, 63 schwarz-weiße und 28 farbige Zeichnungen, 82 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Verlag
Springer BerlinSeitenzahl
455
Maße (L/B/H)
24.1/16.2/2.8 cm
Gewicht
920 g
Auflage
2nd ed. 2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-540-87576-5
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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