Describe how Europeans spread tobacco around the world. |
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Explain the historical importance of tobacco to America. |
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Describe the history of anti-tobacco efforts and the tobacco companies' responses. |
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Explain the difficulties in marketing "safer" cigarettes as related to FDA regulation. |
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Describe the most important adverse health consequences of smoking and the total annual smoking-attributable mortality in the U.S. |
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Understand the controversy over secondhand smoke as both a social issue and a public health issue. |
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Describe the effects of cigarette smoking on the developing fetus and the newborn. |
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Explain why smoking is not immediately lethal, in spite of nicotine's powerful toxicity. |
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Describe how nicotine affects cholinergic receptors in the brain and throughout the body. |
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Describe the most common physiological and behavioral effects of nicotine. |
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Describe the roles of counseling, nicotine replacement therapy, and bupropion in smoking cessation. |