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Tobacco and public health : science and policy / edited by Peter Boyle [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 798 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417599537
  • 9781417599530
  • 1281015768
  • 9781281015761
  • 9786611015763
  • 6611015760
  • 9780198526872
  • 0198526873
Other title:
  • Tobacco, science, policy, and public health [Cover title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tobacco and public health.DDC classification:
  • 362.29/6 22
LOC classification:
  • RA1232.T6 T634 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • WM 290
Online resources: Summary: This book 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. The book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

This book 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. The book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents. 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.

English.

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