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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809640303321

Autore

Jiloha R. C

Titolo

Tobacco use : health and behaviour / / R.C. Jiloha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, 2008

ISBN

1-282-07425-3

9786612074257

81-224-2649-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

158

613.8/5

616.865

Soggetti

Tobacco use - Health aspects - India

Nicotine addiction - Treatment - India

Smoking cessation - India

Tobacco use - Health aspects

Nicotine addiction - Treatment

Smoking cessation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. History of Tobacco Use: New World's Revenge; Chapter 2. Global Trends in Tobacco Use; Chapter 3. Tobacco: Cultivation, Curing and Commerce; Chapter 4. Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism and Pharmacodynamics; Chapter 5. Addiction Model: Tobacco Use as Drug Dependence; Chapter 6. People at Risk: Initiation and Maintenance of Tobacco Use; Chapter 7. Women and Children: Victims of Passive Smoking; Chapter 8. Tobacco use and Medical Morbidity; Chapter 9. Tobacco Use in Psychiatric Patients

Chapter 10. Smoking-Cessation and Treatment of Tobacco DependenceChapter 11. Tobacco Control in India; Chapter 12. Tobacco Use:2020 and Beyond; Index

Sommario/riassunto

About the Book:  Smoking is injurious to health. It has been estimated that about 1.3 billion are addicted to smoking and unless steps are



taken to make people aware of the growing menace, 650 million people are likely to die prematurely due to the extensive use of tobacco.    The book, Tobacco Use: Health and Behaviour, in twelve chapters, deals with a wide range of issues concerning its cultivation and its impact on the health of its users. It provides a critical test for our concepts of reality; discusses how it has assumed political, economic and medical importance since its introduction;