书目名称 | Tobacco or Health? | 副标题 | Physiological and So | 编辑 | Knut-Olaf Haustein,David Groneberg | 视频video | | 概述 | Comprehensive, systematically and clearly structured.The only scientific-based book on nicotine drug dependency.Up-to-date description of the latest findings and the international legislation.Detailed | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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-st | 出版日期 | Book 2010Latest edition | 关键词 | Atmen; Smoking cessation; cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular system; drug; evidence-based medicine; ki | 版次 | 2 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87577-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-662-49973-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-87577-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE |
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