Clearing the smoke : assessing the science base for tobacco harm reduction /

Clearing the smoke : assessing the science base for tobacco harm reduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 498 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Smoking -- Health aspects. Smoking cessation. Tobacco use -- Prevention. Tobacco Smoke Pollution -- prevention & control. Biomarkers. Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects. Neoplasms -- etiology. Nicotine -- pharmacology. Smoke -- adverse effects. Smoking cessation. Smoking -- Health aspects. Tobacco use -- Prevention.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113797

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Other authors / contributors:	Stratton, Kathleen R.
Notes:	Title from title screen; description based on screen viewed June 6, 2001. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The National Academy Press, based in Washington, D.C. presents the full text of the book entitled "Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction," edited by Kathleen Stratton, Padma Shetty, Robert Wallace, and Stuart Bondurant. The book was originally published in 2001. The book discusses the evaluation of products that claim to reduce the need to smoke while allowing nicotine consumption.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, background and conclusions
Introduction
Principles of harm reduction
Historical perspective and lessons learned
Products for tobacco exposure reduction
Science base
Surveillance for the health and behavioral consequences of harm reduction
Implementation of a science-based policy of harm reduction
Principal conclusions
Evidence for the science base
Nicotine pharmacology
Tobacco smoke and toxicology
Exposure and biomarker assessment in humans
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Nonneoplastic respiratory diseases
Reproductive and developmental effects
Other health effects.