Public health issues in treating tobacco use.
Comprehensive strategies are needed to prevent initiation of tobacco use, to help users quit, and to reduce morbidity, mortality and indirect social costs. Using an agent-host-vector model for disease, all forms of tobacco are the "agent," whether they are manufactured by large companies or are traditional tobacco products. "Host" refers to tobacco users and everyone else because all are in some way adversely affected, including the unborn. The "vector" is the tobacco industry. The public needs truth, tobacco dependent victims require help, and the tobacco industry needs accountability and restraint.
Mecklenburg
Robert E
RE
rbtmeck@earthlink.net
D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D019460:Tobacco Industry; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless