Tobacco or Health?
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Í þessari bók er fjallað ítarlega um skaðleg áhrif tóbaksreykinga á heilsu manna. Í þessari annarri útgáfu hefur verið bætt við miklu magni nýrra gagna sem birst hafa í fjölmörgum vísindarannsóknum og safngreiningum á undanförnum árum. Því miður gera tóbaksiðnaðurinn og stjórnmálamenn í mörgum iðnríkjum lítið úr skaðlegum afleiðingum reykinga. Um 800.000 manns deyja þó árlega í Evrópusambandinu af beinum afleiðingum reykinga.
Sérstaklega varhugavert er að heilsutjón af völdum tóbaksneyslu kemur yfirleitt ekki í ljós fyrr en þremur eða fjórum áratugum eftir að reykingar hefjast. Þótt nokkrar jákvæðar breytingar hafi orðið á löggjöf um tóbak á undanförnum fimm árum er enn þörf á samstilltu alþjóðlegu átaki stjórnmálamanna, heilbrigðisstarfsfólks, kennara og fjölmiðla gegn þessum vanda.
Nokkur lönd, þar á meðal Bandaríkin og Bretland, hafa sýnt gott fordæmi. Á fjórum sviðum er þörf á frekari umbótum:
- Algjört bann við tóbaksauglýsingum á heimsvísu.
- Öflugri aðgerðir til verndar gegn óbeinum reykingum.
- Forvarnaráætlanir, sérstaklega fyrir börn.
- Meðferð við tóbaksfíkn.
This book comprehensively summarizes the adverse effects of tobacco smoking on human health. The current second edition has integrated a large set of new data that have been published in numerous scientifc studies and meta-analyses over the past few years. Unfortunately, the harmful sequelae of tobacco smoking are played down by the ind- try and politicians in many industrialized countries. However, about 800,000 people/year in the EU die from the immediate consequences of smoking.
The particularly insidious feature of tobacco consumption is that smoking-attributable harmful effects on health do not generally become apparent until three or four decades after smoking initiation. Although some positive changes in the legislative handling of tobacco have appeared in the past fve years, we still need to form a pact, sealed by politicians, the medical prof- sionals, teachers and the media, to target the problem across nations.
In this respect, a minority of countries, including the US and the UK, have given positive examples. There are four areas that need to be improved in future: (1) strict bans on tobacco adv- tisement on a global level, (2) better measures to protect against side-stream (passive) smoke exposure, (3) establishment of prevention programs, especially for children and (4) tre- ment of tobacco addiction.
Nánar um bókina
- Springer Nature
- 9783540875772
- 9783540875765
- ePub
- 2
- Knut-Olaf Haustein; David Groneberg
- English
- 2009-09-21
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover
- Frontmatter
- 1. History of Tobacco
- 2. Epidemiology of Tobacco Dependence
- 3. Tobacco Constituents and Additives
- 4. Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics of Nicotine
- 5. Smoking and Lung Disease
- 6. Cardiovascular Disease, Disturbances of Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis
- 7. Other Organ Systems
- 8. Smoking and Pregnancy
- 9. Passive Smoking
- 10. Non-Drug Treatments to Promote Smoking Cessation
- 11. Pharmacotherapy of Nicotine Dependence
- 12. Primary Prevention
- 13. Tobacco Industry, Advertising and Advertising Bans
- 14. Society, Politics and the Tobacco Industry
- 15. Appendix: Experiences from a Smoker Counselling Centre
- Backmatter