Nicotine, smoking, and the low tar programme /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Description:	xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford medical publications
Subject:	Tobacco -- Toxicology -- Congresses. Nicotine -- Toxicology -- Congresses. Nicotine -- Health aspects -- Congresses. Tar -- Health aspects -- Congresses. Smoking -- Great Britain -- Congresses. Nicotine -- toxicity -- congresses. Smoking -- adverse effects -- congresses. Smoking -- mortality -- Great Britain -- congresses. Smoking -- trends -- congresses. Tars -- congresses. Nicotine -- Health aspects. Nicotine -- Toxicology. Smoking. Tobacco -- Toxicology. Great Britain. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1142275

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Other authors / contributors:	Wald, Nicholas J. Froggatt, Peter Great Britain. Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health
ISBN:	019261729X : $65.00 (U.S.)
Notes:	Proceedings of a symposium held in London on Nov. 18-20, 1986, organized by the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health. Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents:

Part I. The Toxicity of Nicotine
1. Central Nervous System Toxicity of Nicotine
2. Toxicology of Nicotine: Its Role in the Aetiology of Cancer Due to Cigarette Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
3. Nicotine, A Tobacco-Specific Precursor for Carcinogens
4. The Toxicity of Nicotine: Cancer
Part II. Smoking Habits and Related Mortality in the UK
5. Trends in Cigarette Smoking Habits in the United Kingdom, 1905-1985
6. Trends in Mortality From Smoking-Related Diseased in England and Wales
Part III. Smoking Yields and Compensation
7. Limitations to Potential Uses for Data Based on the Machine Smoking of Cigarettes: Cigarette Smoke Contents
8. Estimating the Extent of Compensatory Smoking
9. Consistency of Nicotine Intake in Smokers of Cigarettes with Varying Nicotine Yields
Part IV. Determinants of Low Tar Smoking and of Compensation
10. Dosimetric Studies of Compensatory Cigarette Smoking
11. Nicotine and the Self-Regulation of Smoking Intake
12. Isolating the Role of Nicotine in Human Smoking Behavior
13. The Functional Use of Nicotine
14. On the Reduction of Nicotine in Cigarette Smoke
15. The Possible Role of Factors Other Than Nicotine in Compensatory Smoking
16. Factors Influencing Choice of Low-Tar Cigarettes
17. The Role of Nicotine in the Tar Reduction Programme

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