Tobacco and Health

By John Crofton

Tobacco smoking is now generally accepted as the most important cause of premature death and of much chronic ill health in most industrialized countries. In recent years - fostered by ruthless marketing by the multinational tobacco companies - the habit has been increasing in many developing countries, which will add a further burden of smoking-related disease to their already heavy burdens of communicable disease and malnutrition. Tobacco smoking is also increasing in many Eastern European countries, threatening to worsen a health record that is already causing much international concern.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853152722
• ISBN13: 9781853152726
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Royal Society Of Medicine Pres
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.