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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.