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This WHO Technical Report Series report makes available the findings of an international group of experts that provide WHO with the latest scientific and technical advice in the area of product regulation. The third report presents the conclusions reached and recommendations made by the members of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation at its fifth meeting, during which it reviewed two background papers specially commissioned For The meeting and which dealt, respectively, with the following two themes: devices designed For The purpose of nicotine delivery To The respiratory system i.

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Tobacco Chapter 2 - History of Tobacco Chapter 3 - Types of Tobacco Chapter 4 - Prevalence of Tobacco Consumption Chapter 5 - Health Effect of Tobacco Chapter 6 - Advertising of Tobacco

This new book presents and discusses current research in the study of smoking habits and the various health effects which arise due to this activity. Topics discussed include pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation; tobacco use by adolescents and young adults; genetic susceptibility to second-hand smoke; passive smoking in oral health research; influence of smoking during pregnancy on newborn health; teenage smoking and parental awareness; lung cancer in a perspective of evolutionary and dietary habits and the effects of cigarette smoking on the human plasma tocopherols levels.

Today, massive and conclusive scientific evidence documents the serious health risks that secondhand smoke poses to children, and the list of these health conditions has lengthened. The 2006 Surgeon General's report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke concludes that children who are exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, lower respiratory infections, middle ear disease, more severe asthma, respiratory symptoms, and slowed lung growth. Because their respiratory, immune, and nervous systems are still developing, children are especially vulnerable to the health effects of secondhand smoke. In addition, young children typically are exposed to secondhand smoke involuntarily and have limited options for avoiding exposure. They depend on their parents and on adults around them for protection..