Tobacco: Science, Policy and Public Health - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198526873 ISBN 13: 9780198526872

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

The book is directed at an international public health and epidemiology audience includng health economists and those interested in tobacco control.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Boyle and Nigel Gray are at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. Jack Henningford is at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. John Seffrin is with the American Cancer Society, Atlanta. Witold Zatonaki is at the Institute of Oncology, Poland.

Review:

"This book is...the definitive work on tobacco use and its impact upon the world's public health."--Doody's

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0198526873
• ISBN 13: 9780198526872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 830
• Editor: Boyle Peter, Gray Nigel, Henningfield Jack, Seffrin John, Zatonski Witold