Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health : A Biobehavioral Approach

by Lynn T. Kozlowski

• ISBN13: 9780803959460
• ISBN10: 080395946X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-24
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs, they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains, where it affects how the smokers feel and act. When smokers display their cigarettes, they are saying something symbolic and personal about themselves. And when smokers smoke, they put themselves at risk, often knowingly, of early disability or death. Smoking is one of the world?s most pressing public health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes are the most popular, most addictive, and most deadly form of tobacco use, with cigarette design contributing directly to the dangers of smoking; most of the book focuses on this predominant form of nicotine use.

Table of Contents

Why Bio-Behavioral? Why Cigarettes, Nicotine, & Health?

The History of the Use of Nicotine

A Tasty Wonder Drug for Many, if not All, Occasions

Who Smokes and What Kills Them

What Nicotine Does to the Body

The Natural History of a Dependence Disorder

Tobacco Use as Nicotine Addiction

Smoking, Drinking, and Drug-Taking

A Biobehavioral Syndrome

`Low-Tar', `Light' Cigarettes

Lessons from a Dangerous Boondoggle

Helping Smokers Quit

Smoking, Public Health, and Policy