Tobacco. Science, Policy and Public Health

Description

• Brings together science and public health policy
• Focuses on global tobacco control issues
• Distinguished contributors from around the world

New to this edition

• New chapters in this second edition include: Market manipulation: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers; In Their Own Words: An Epoch of Deceit and Deception; Manipulating Product Design to Reinforce Tobacco

Addiction; and a new section of the text devoted to 'Tobacco around the world'.
Tobacco: Science, Policy and Public Health Second Edition comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases. It also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents.

New chapters in this second edition include: Market manipulation: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers; In Their Own Words: An Epoch of Deceit and Deception; Manipulating Product Design to Reinforce Tobacco Addiction; and a new section of the text devoted to 'Tobacco around the world'.

The editors are an international group distinguished in the field of tobacco-related diseases, epidemiology, and tobacco control. The contributors are world experts drawn from the various clinical fields. This major reference text gives a unique overview of one of the major public health problems in both the developed and developing world.

Readership: Those involved in public health and epidemiology, including policy makers and health economists, addiction scientists and clinicians.

Table of contents

C. Everett Koop: Preface

Tobacco: History
1: Sir Richard Doll: Evolution of knowledge of the smoking epidemic
2: Michael J. Thun and S. J. Henley: The great studies of smoking and disease in the twentieth century
3: Lynn T. Kozlowski and Richard J. O'Connor: Dealing with health fears: Cigarette advertising in the United States in the twentieth century
4: Melanie Wakefield: Market manipulation: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers
5: Channing Robertson and Richard Hurt: In Their Own Words: An epoch of deceit and deception

Tobacco: Composition
6: Ilse Hoffmann and Dieter Hoffmann: The changing cigarette: chemical studies and bioassays
7: Stephen S. Hecht: Tobacco carcinogenesis: Mechanisms and biomarkers

Nicotine and addiction
8: Jack E. Henningfield and Neal L. Benowitz: Pharmacology of tobacco addiction
9: Geoffrey Ferris Wayne and Carrie M. Carpenter: Manipulating product design to reinforce tobacco addiction
10: Mirjana V. Djordjevic: Nicotine dosing characteristics across products

Tobacco around the world
11: Witold Zatonski, Marta Manczuk: Tobacco smoking and tobacco-related harm in the European Union with the special attention to the new EU member states
12: Prakash C. Gupta and Cecily S. Ray: The epidemic in India
13: Richard Peto, Zheng-ming Chen and Jillian Boreham: The epidemic in China
14: Jae-Gahb Park, Ji Won Park, Hong-Gwan Seo, Jin Soo Lee, Il Soon Kim, Yong-Ik Kim, Jong-Koo Lee and Dae-Kyu Oh: Tobacco Control in Korea

Tobacco and health. Global burden
15: Richard Peto: The hazards of smoking and the benefits of stopping: Cancer mortality and overall mortality
16: Jonathan M. Samet: Passive smoking and health
17: John P. Pierce, Janet M Distefan and David Hill: Adolescent smoking
18: Amanda Amos and Judith Mackay: Tobacco and women

Tobacco and cancer
19: Fabio Levi and Carlo La Vecchia: Cancer of the prostate
20: Paolo Boffetta: Laryngeal cancer
21: Eva Negri: Smoking and cancer of the oesophagus
22: Tongzhang Zheng: Tobacco use and cancer of the oral cavity
23: David Zaridze: Smoking and stomach cancer
24: E. Giovanucci: Tobacco and colorectal cancer
25: Jack Cuzick, Maribel Almonte and Anne Szarewski: Tobacco and cervical neoplasia
26: Patrick Maisonneuve: Smoking and pancreatic cancer
27: Peter Boyle and Graham Giles: Smoking and lung cancer
28: Areti Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos: Active and passive smoking and cancer of the breast
29: Crystal N. Holick and Harvey A. Risch: Smoking and ovarian cancer
30: Paul D. Terry, Thomas E. Rohan and Elisabete Weiderpass: Smoking, hormone concentrations and ovarian cancer

Tobacco and cardiovascular disease
31: Konrad Jamrozik: Tobacco and cardiovascular disease

Tobacco and respiratory disease
32: David Burns: Chronic obstructive lung disease
33: Allan Hackshaw: Tobacco and other diseases

Tobacco and alcohol
34: Albert B. Lowenfels and Patrick Maisonneuve: Interaction of tobacco with other risk factors

Tobacco control: successes and failures
35: Richard A. Daynard: Roles of tobacco litigation in societal change
36: Maria Leon-Roux and John P. Pierce: The adoption of smoke-free policies and their effectiveness
37: Ron Borland and K. Michael Cummings: Advancing tobacco control by effective evaluation
38: Nigel Gray: Global tobacco policy

Treatment of dependence
39: Robyn L. Richmond and Nicholas Zwar: Treatment of tobacco dependence

Harm Reduction
40: Dorothy Hatsukami and Mark Parascandola: Tobacco harm reduction

Advocacy and activism in the real world
41: Simon Chapman: Influencing politicians to implement comprehensive tobacco control: the power of news media

Overview of regulatory efforts
42: Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva and Douglas Bettcher: Origins and status of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC)
43: Raman Minhas and Douglas Bettcher: WHO - Coordinating international policy in tobacco control