Nicotine, smoking, and the low tar programme /
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. |
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Description: | xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford medical publications |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1142275 |
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