Authors: Lynn T. Kozlowski, Jack E. Henningfield, Janet Brigham
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…
