title: Pulmonary and cardiovascular consequences of smoking.
abstract: The extensive worldwide disease burden attributable to tobacco smoking is reviewed, with particular attention to the epidemiologic and clinical aspects, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and pathophysiology of a variety of smoking-related pulmonary diseases, and the epidemiology and clinical presentation of smoking-related atherosclerotic disease as it affects the cardiovascular system cerebral circulation, the aorta, and the peripheral arterial tree.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA. skamholz@nshs.edu
authors.forename: Stephan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Kamholz
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality