Smoking

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After an overview of the health consequences of tobacco use, sections on addiction; cancer; cardiovascular diseases; lung diseases; smoking and pregnancy; tobacco-related diseases; environmental tobacco smoke; children and adolescents; psychology and fertility; smoking career; and smoking cessation offer extended annotations of important English- language studies from the 1980s and 1990s on smoking's health effects. Includes annotations on reports from the US Public Health Service and the Office of the Surgeon General. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.