Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health: A Biobehavioral Approach

Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health: A Biobehavioral Approach
ISBN-10
1452264325
ISBN-13
9781452264325
Category
Psychology
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2001-04-24
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Authors
Jack E. Henningfield, Janet Brigham, Lynn T. Kozlowski

Description

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs, they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains, where it affects how the smokers feel and act. When smokers display their cigarettes, they are saying something symbolic and personal about themselves. And when smokers smoke, they put themselves at risk, often knowingly, of early disability or death. Smoking is one of the world′s most pressing public health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes are the most popular, most addictive, and most deadly form of tobacco use, with cigarette design contributing directly to the dangers of smoking; most of the book focuses on this predominant form of nicotine use.

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