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Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of tobacco, its history, its role in culture, and its dangers. Also explains the power of tobacco over smokers and chewers, how cigarette makers help increase its hold--and make it more difficult to live without it, and offers suggestions on how to kick the tobacco habit and reverse its ill effects.
7) This naked mind: nicotine: the science-based method to reclaim your health and take control easily
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In This Naked Mind: Nicotine, Annie Grace and William Porter combine their trusted approaches to overcoming problem drinking--science-backed, habit-breaking systems that have worked for thousands--to vanquish tobacco addiction. Annie and William uncover the subconscious beliefs about smoking that keep us addicted to it despite its well-known costs. With thought-provoking questions and exercises that will spark clarity, this essential book will help...
Author
Series
Publisher
BrightPoint Press, an imprint of ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
"Looks at the consequences of e-cigarette use on the body, e-cigarettes as a gateway to other drug use, and what withdrawal and treatment looks like for users"--
The use of e-cigarettes among high school students increased by 75 percent in one year along. The US Food and Drug Administration calls vaping an epidemic. Juul brand of e-cigarette pods look like a USB flash drive, but are contain the same amount of nicotine as twenty cigarettes. They are...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Vaping is the act of smoking an e-cigarette or a similar device. These devices don't produce smoke-but they're still dangerous! The vapor that e-cigarette users inhale and exhale includes fine particles with toxic chemicals. Many of these chemicals are carcinogens that are also linked to respiratory and heart disease. Many e-cigarettes use a liquid that contains nicotine. Other people use e-cigarettes to vape other drugs. In this book, readers will...
Series
NIH publication volume no. 12-3270
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Publisher
Human Relations Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Challenges the belief, held by many students that e-cigarettes and hookahs are risk-free healthy alternatives to traditional cigarettes. It shows how in a typical hookah session a smoker inhales 100 times the amount of toxin-laden smoke that is inhaled smoking a cigarette. While e-cigarettes don't contain the carcinogens that come from burning tobacco, the vapor does contain highly addictive nicotine as well as other chemicals whose health risks we...