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Nicotine & cigarettes Nicotine & cigarettes Gina DeAngelis Examines the dangers of nicotine use, including a history of the drug, its physiological and chemical effects, and ways of getting help with an addiction to it. OL15045158W
Tobacco and Health Tobacco and Health Lisa Firth It is well established that smoking affects an individual’s health, causing painful chronic illnesses such as lung cancer and emphysema. However, there are still an estimated 10 million smokers in Br… OL15193038W
Alcohol, tobacco and obesity Alcohol, tobacco and obesity Kirsten Bell,Darlene McNaughton,Amy Salmon xii, 233 p. : 24 cm OL16143360W
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                IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinog… Human Papillomaviruses IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinog… World Health Organization (WHO) This ninetieth volume of the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans considers human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which were evaluated by a previous Working Group (IARC, 1995). … OL17544855W
Everything you need to know about smoking Everything you need to know about smoking Elizabeth Keyishian Discusses the dangerous effects of smoking, why people start, why it's so hard to quit, and how to stop smoking. OL17737830W
Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence & Mortality Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence & Mortality Margie Patlak,Sharyl J. Nass,Erin Balogh Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440,000 deaths annually and resulting in $193 billion in health-related economic losses each year -- $96 bill… OL17857335W
Tobacco and smoking Tobacco and smoking Karen Balkin Growing tobacco has become an economic and moral problem for farmers in the United States. In the following chapters, authors in Tobacco and Smoking: Opposing Viewpoints consider how research on the … OL18174867W
Tobacco smoking Tobacco smoking Justin Healey Tobacco smoking kills up to half of its users and has a global annual death toll of more than five million people. It is the largest cause of preventable death in the western world. Around 3 million … OL19907188W
Nicotine Nicotine Nell Zink The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a group of frien… OL20038355W
The facts about nicotine The facts about nicotine Suzanne LeVert "Describes the history, characteristics, legal status, and effects of using nicotine"--Provided by publisher. OL2005399W
Montana tobacco-free schools Montana tobacco-free schools Montana. Office of Public Instruction "This monograph is designed to provide local school administrators and boards of education with background information and the resource materials necessary to create tobacco-free schools in their dis… OL24969328W
Addiction Addiction Gilda Berger Discusses the phenomenon of compulsive dependence on pleasure-giving substances such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and food, as well as causes of, treatments for, and societal attitudes towar… OL2728087W
Helping smokers give up Helping smokers give up David Buck,Christine Godfrey The Health of the Nation has set a target for a one-third reduction in the prevalence of smoking by the turn of the century. There are several strategies available to try to achieve this aim. If purc… OL27294458W
Tobacco control Tobacco control Donley T. Studlar "Tobacco Control is the first book to compare the politics of tobacco in the United States and Canada. It describes the course of tobacco control policy, both regulation and taxation, in each country… OL2987643W
Guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of Boston public health commission's clean air wo… Guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of Boston public health commission's clean air wo… Boston Public Health Commission ...guidelines promulgated to enforce the intent of the Board of the Boston Public Health Commission to protect the health and welfare of all individuals by regulating smoking in the workplace... OL37535585W
The downside of drugs The downside of drugs Regina Avraham Examines the effects that the use of drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, tranquilizers, and depressants can have on the individual user and on society as a whole. OL4439211W
Teen guide to pregnancy, drugs, and smoking Teen guide to pregnancy, drugs, and smoking Jane Hawksley Introduces the risks of smoking and using drugs during pregnancy and discusses how an individual can come off legal, illegal, and prescription drugs both before and after discovering she is pregnant. OL4795156W
The joy of quitting The joy of quitting Dee Burton Discusses the reasons why people smoke, the physical effects of smoking, and ways of giving up the habit. OL4910267W
Smoking and health Smoking and health Alberta D. Berton Approximately 2800 worldwide references to journal articles published, for the most part, from 1977 to the present. Intended for current researchers. Alphabetical arrangement. Each entry gives biblio… OL6335763W
Tobacco Tobacco Iain Gately "Long before the arrival of Columbus, the indigenous peoples of the Americas cultivated and enjoyed tobacco, using it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But with the dawn of the age of co… OL8398692W
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