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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 |
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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 countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, |
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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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