Smoking addiction and smoking cessation
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Nicotine addiction and smoking cessation treatments
It is estimated that 29% of adults in the UK smoke (Office for National Statistics, 2000). Each year smoking kills 120 000 people (13 deaths per hour), making it the single most common preventable cause of death in Britain (Callum, 1998). Around half of all smokers will die prematurely because of their addiction (Peto et al, 1994). Their overall life expectancy is, on average, 8 years less than...
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عنوان ژورنال: Zdravstvena zastita
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0350-3208
DOI: 10.5937/zz1006015l