Cigarettes

From impotence to diabetes, cataracts to psoriasis, the proven dangers of smoking go well beyond heart and lung disease. Here, for the first time in one complete volume, noted experts detail all the known health threats of smoking. Each day thousands of people decide to smoke. This book offers the cold, hard facts about smoking so that the decision can be an informed one. The health experts urge consumers to look beyond the headlines, the politics, the propaganda, and opinion polls to learn what research has proven about the dangers of smoking, the leading cause of preventable death in the world. Twenty eye-opening chapters all carefully reviewed by independent health experts explain clearly and honestly how cigarette smoking can effect the body from head to toe.They go far beyond the obvious risks of heart disease, lung cancer and emphysema, stroke, and concerns over second-hand smoke. Probed in depth are conditions few would even associate with smoking risks to which moderate to light smokers are susceptible: blood vessel disease, skin disease and wrinkles, risks during surgery, joint and bone problems, paediatric illness, male infertility and impotence, nerve disorders, numerous types of cancer, depression, hearing loss, eye disorders, Crohn's disease, and more.

ISBN 1573921580   Pages 212 ISBN13 9781573921589 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Prometheus Books   Weight (grammes) 318 Imprint Prometheus Books   Published in Amherst Format Paperback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 19 Sep 1997   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress 97022232   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 616.865   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Foreword: Cigarettes: The Undisclosed Medical Risks by Elizabeth M. Whelan
		Preface by William M. London
		Introduction: The Leading Cause of Preventable Death by Kristine Napier		1
Ch. 1		Smoking and Lung Disease		5
Ch. 2		Oncology: Smoking and Cancer Risk		13
Ch. 3		Smoking and Heart Disease		25
Ch. 4		Smoking and Peripheral Vascular Disease		35
Ch. 5		Smoking and the Skin		41
Ch. 6		Smoking and Surgical Risk		47
Ch. 7		Smoking and Orthopedic Problems		55
Ch. 8		Smoking and Rheumatologic Conditions		61
Ch. 9		Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Pediatric Illnesses		69
Ch. 10		Smoking and Complications in Obstetrics and Gynecology		81
Ch. 11		Smoking and Urology: Male Infertility and Sexuality Dysfunctions		95
Ch. 12		Smoking and Neurological Disorders		101
Ch. 13		Psychiatry: Smoking, the Brain and Behavior		111
Ch. 14		Otolaryngology: Abnormalities of the Ears, Nose and Throat Associated with Smoking		117
Ch. 15		Smoking and the Eyes		121
Ch. 16		Smoking and Oral Health		129
Ch. 17		Smoking and the Endocrine System		135
Ch. 18		Smoking and Gastrointestinal Diseases		145
Ch. 19		Smoking and the Immune System		155
Ch. 20		Smoking and Emergency Medicine		163
		Afterword: Tobaccosis, A Twentieth-Century Catastrophe by Reimert Thorolf Ravenholt		169
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