Tobacco: Science, policy and public health
Peter Boyle, Nigel Gray, Jack Henningfield, John Seffrin, and Witold Zatonski
Abstract
This book 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 edition cover subjects such as market manipulation, ... More
This book 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 edition cover subjects such as market manipulation, the ways in which the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers, and how product design is manipulated in order to maintain addiction.
Keywords:
science issues,
policy issues,
aetiology,
tobacco-related diseases,
tobacco control policies,
market manipulation,
product design,
addiction
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199566655 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566655.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Peter Boyle, editor
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Nigel Gray, editor
Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
Jack Henningfield, editor
Professor, Behavioral Biology and Director, Innovators Awards Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Vice President, Research and Health Policy, Pinney Associates, USA
John Seffrin, editor
Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society, Inc, USA
Witold Zatonski, editor
Director and Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Center and Institute of Oncology; Founder and President of the Health Promotion Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
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