The Tobacco Epidemic

by C.T. Bolliger and Karl-Olov Fagerstrom

A Karger 'Publishing Highlights 1890-2015' title Today it is a well-established fact that cigarette smoking is fundamentally a form of addiction to the drug nicotine. However, this does not mean that smoking can entirely be explained in terms of pharmacological factors - as with any drug addiction, social, economic, personal and political influences all play an important part in determining patterns of prevalence and cessation. This publication provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3805565313
• ISBN13: 9783805565318
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
• Length: 265 Pages