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UNINA9910464025903321 |
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Titolo |
Life-course smoking behavior : patterns and national context in ten countries / / edited by Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-938912-8 |
0-19-938913-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Smoking - Health aspects |
Tobacco use - Health aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Life-Course Smoking Behavior; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; About the Contributing Authors; Note to the Reader; 1. Introduction; Part I The Anglo-Saxon World: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States; 2. Smoking in Australia; 3. Smoking in Canada; 4. Smoking in the United Kingdom; 5. Smoking in the United States; Part II Western Europe: Germany and Spain; 6. Smoking in Germany; 7. Smoking in Spain; Part III Eastern Europe and Asia: China, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey; 8. Smoking in China |
9. Smoking in Russia and Ukraine Before, During, and After the Soviet Union10. Smoking in Turkey; Part IV Cross-Country Patterns; 11. Smoking by Men in Cross-Country Perspective; 12. Smoking by Women in Cross-Country Perspective; 13. Relative Smoking Patterns of Men and Women in Cross-Country Perspective; Part V Appendix; 14. Description and Sources of Raw Data; 15. Derivation of Historical Smoking Prevalence; 16. Timeline of Tobacco-Related Events by Country; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking rates are declining very slowly in advanced |
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countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, researchers still do not fully understand what drives smoking decisions. Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, with nation-specific representative samples spanning more than eighty years of recent history. To inspire hypotheses on the determinants of smoking behavior, the authors pl |
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