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Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic

Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Tobacco or Health, 24–28 August 1997, Beijing, China

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Rushan Lu

    1. Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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  2. Judith Mackay

    1. Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  3. Shiru Niu

    1. Institute of Environmental Health and Engineering, Xuan Wu District, Beijing, China

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  4. Richard Peto

    1. Clinical Trial Service Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

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  • Extremely broad coverage of tobacco-related problems - includes all papers from the conference
  • Organisers are involved in one of the WHO's major initiatives to reduce tobacco-related problems

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Table of contents (440 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVII
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  2. The Global Epidemic

    1. The Growing Epidemic

      1. Smoking in China
        • G. Yang, K. Becker, L. Fan, Y. Zhang, G. Qi, C. E. Taylor et al.
        Pages 5-10
      2. Emerging tobacco hazards in China: Results on early mortality from a prospective study of 224 500 men
        • S.-R. Niu, G.-H. Yang, Z.-M. Chen, J.-L. Wang, G.-H. Wang, X.-Z. He et al.
        Pages 10-13
      3. Health effects of tobacco use in women
        • A. J. Sasco
        Pages 14-17
      4. Women: The second wave of the tobacco epidemic
        • M. Haglund
        Pages 18-20
      5. Oral cancer and tobacco use in India: A new epidemic
        • P. C. Gupta
        Pages 20-21

    2. Studies on Tabacco Use: The Prevalence of Tabacco Use

      1. Tobacco use in Japan
        • N. Yamaguchi, Y. Mochizuki-Kobayashi, S. Watanabe
        Pages 27-33
      2. The tobacco epidemic in Viet Nam
        • C. N. H. Jenkins, P. X. Da, D. H. Ngoc, T. T. Hoang, H. V. Kinh, S. Bales et al.
        Pages 33-37
      3. Population survey of smoking in Macao, 1997
        • C. Lam, A. Joao Maia
        Pages 37-39
      4. Tobacco smoking in Malaysia
        • H. Habil
        Pages 39-40
      5. Pilot studies on tobacco use in Chennai (Madras), India
        • C. K. Gajalakshmi, V. Shanta, R. Peto
        Pages 40-41
      6. Tobacco use in India
        • R. Thanhawla, R. Thanseia
        Pages 41-42
      7. High prevalences of obesity, hypertension and smoking in an Egyptian population
        • F. Hassan, H. Gelband, R. Peto
        Pages 43-45
      8. Tobacco consumption and prevalence of smoking in Cuba
        • M. Bonet Gorbea, G. Roche, N. Suarez Lugo, P. Varona Perez
        Pages 45-46
      9. Characteristics of tobacco prevalence in Venezuela: Use of a new parameter
        • M. Adrianza, T. Villamizar, B. López, N. Herrera
        Pages 47-49
      10. Expected trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking in the United States
        • D. Méndez, K. E. Warner, P. N. Courant
        Pages 50-52
      11. Epidemiology of smoking and some determinants of smoking behaviour
        • V. Levshin, V. Drojachih, T. Fedichkina, N. Slepchenko
        Pages 53-54
      12. Epidemiology of smoking in Slovakia
        • S. Urban, J. Luha
        Pages 55-56
      13. Smoking behaviour and attitudes of key at-risk groups in Turkey
        • N. Bilir, A. Naci Yyldyz, B. Gügiz Do∂an, F. Kalyoncu
        Pages 57-58
      14. The growing tobacco epidemic in Palau
        • C. Otto, A. Lyman
        Pages 59-59
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About this book

This book contains the full proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Tobacco or Health, held 24-28 August 1997 in Beijing, China, and hosted by the Chinese Association on Smoking and Health and the Chinese Medical Association.
Tobacco is now causing a worldwide epidemic of premature death and disability, affecting first men and then women in developed countries, and now increasingly affecting developing countries. The theme "Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic" was chosen to reflect the increasingly global nature of the problem.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

    Rushan Lu

  • Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Judith Mackay

  • Institute of Environmental Health and Engineering, Xuan Wu District, Beijing, China

    Shiru Niu

  • Clinical Trial Service Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

    Richard Peto

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Tobacco or Health, 24–28 August 1997, Beijing, China

  • Editors: Rushan Lu, Judith Mackay, Shiru Niu, Richard Peto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0769-9

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-296-9Published: 17 July 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0769-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 998

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

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