Name: Is tobacco use a disease?
Creator: Katherine L. Frohlich
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Smoking, Prevalence, Humans, Smoking Cessation, Smoking Prevention, Public Health, Global Health, 0305 other medical science

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 21 Oct 2008 English Publisher:CMA Joule Inc.Journal:Canadian Medical Association Journal, volume 179, pages 880-882 (issn: 0820-3946, eissn: 1488-2329,

Authors: Katherine L. Frohlich;

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.080545

pmid: 18936446

pmc: PMC2565708

Is tobacco use a disease?

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Abstract

Should tobacco use be framed as a disease or a population-based health concern?[1][1] At present, there are 2 potentially competing approaches to reducing smoking rates. The first, the disease-centred approach, identifies smoking as an individual-level disorder requiring medical treatment. The

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Keywords

Smoking, Prevalence, Humans, Smoking Cessation, Smoking Prevention, Public Health, Global Health

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