title: An epidemic of massive proportions: Smoking and the health of the nation.
abstract: The number of deaths from smoking-related illness is still unacceptably high. The government aims to reduce cigarette consumption by the year 2000, but this can only be achieved if the social, psychological and political factors that induce people to start smoking are addressed.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology