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Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction

Author :  Chapman, Simon

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Sydney University Press , Australia
ISBN 9781743328538
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 396 pages
Categories DU - Oceania (South Seas)
Product Weight 530 gms.
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Since the 1950s when theevidence on smoking causing serious, fatal diseases began consolidating, hundreds of millions of smokers have quit. Overwhelmingly, the great majorityquit unassisted without any professional or pharmaceutical help. But from thelate 1970s, massive campaigns have urged smokers not to go the cold turkeyroute and instead take nicotine replacement therapy, prescribed drugs and mostrecently, to vape. Simon Chapman is a veteran researcher, a global publichealth advocate and an Australian Skeptic of the Year. In this book he analysesthe relentless push to medicalise and commodif.

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