Smoking is the major preventable source of premature death in the Western world. This volume considers some of the key questions surrounding the smoking habit: why do people maintain the habit? How does smoking effect our physiology and biochemistry, brain activity, or variation in mood? Is there objective evidence of the effects of smoking on human performance? Is smoking an addiction? What are the dangers to health of passive or secondary smoking? How successful are large scale programmes for prevention and cessation? The contributors to this book, all of whom are recognized authorities in the field of smoking and human behaviour, address these questions, many of which are controversial. Aiming to provide a balanced and critical view of theories of smoking and research into the effects of smoking on human behaviour, this text should be of interest to researchers in psychology and psychophysiology, pharmacologists and health workers concerned with effects of passive smoking on health - and perhaps even smokers themselves.
- ISBN10 0471921386
- ISBN13 9780471921387
- Publish Date 26 April 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 396
- Language English