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Foreword
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Trends in the prevalence of smoking
Chapter 2 Trends in tobacco consumption
Chapter 3 The health effects of active smoking
Chapter 4 The health effects of secondhand smoke
Chapter 5 Influences on the uptake and prevention of smoking
Chapter 6 Addiction
Chapter 7 Smoking cessation
Chapter 8 Tobacco use among Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders
Chapter 9 Smoking and social disadvantage
Chapter 10 The tobacco industry in Australian society
Chapter 11 Tobacco advertising and promotion
Chapter 12 The construction and labelling of Australian cigarettes
Chapter 13 The pricing and taxation of tobacco products in Australia
Chapter 14 Social marketing and public education campaigns
Chapter 15 Smokefree environments
Chapter 16 Tobacco litigation in Australia
Chapter 17 The economics of tobacco control
Chapter 18 The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Appendix 1 Useful weblinks to tobacco resources
Chapter 6
Addiction
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6.0
Introduction
6.1
Defining nicotine as a drug of addiction
6.2
The physiological effects of nicotine
6.3
Psychoactive effects of nicotine
6.4
The role of genetic factors in addiction
6.5
Measures of tobacco dependence
6.6
The association between addiction and socio–economic status
6.7
Addiction and the adolescent smoker
6.8
Tobacco 'chippers'
6.9
Nicotine withdrawal syndrome
6.10
Nicotine and other drug use
6.11
Smokers' attitudes to and beliefs about addiction
Acknowledgments
Margaret Winstanley, 2007
Updated by Wayne Hall and Coral Gartner, 2010
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Trends in the prevalence of smoking
Chapter 2
Trends in tobacco consumption
Chapter 3
The health effects of active smoking
Chapter 4
The health effects of secondhand smoke
Chapter 5
Influences on the uptake and prevention of smoking
Chapter 6
Addiction
Chapter 7
Smoking cessation
Chapter 8
Tobacco use among Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders
Chapter 9
Smoking and social disadvantage
Chapter 10
The tobacco industry in Australian society
Chapter 11
Tobacco advertising and promotion
Chapter 12
The construction and labelling of Australian cigarettes
Chapter 13
The pricing and taxation of tobacco products in Australia
Chapter 14
Social marketing and public education campaigns
Chapter 15
Smokefree environments
Chapter 16
Tobacco litigation in Australia
Chapter 17
The economics of tobacco control
Chapter 18
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Appendix 1
Useful weblinks to tobacco resources
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