Titre : | Nicotine addiction : Mechanisms of disease (2010) |
Auteurs : | N. L. BENOWITZ |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | New England Journal of Medicine (Vol.362, n°24, June 17, 2010) |
Article en page(s) : | 2295-2303 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés TABAC ; NICOTINE ; DEPENDANCE ; NEUROBIOLOGIE ; CERVEAU ; MECANISME D'ACTION ; NEUROTRANSMETTEURS ; CONDITIONNEMENT ; GENETIQUE ; FACTEUR DE VULNERABILITE |
Résumé : |
Cigarette smoking remains a leading cause of preventable disease and premature death in the United States and other countries. On average, 435,000 people in the United States die prematurely from smoking-related diseases each year; overall, smoking causes 1 in 5 deaths. The chance that a lifelong smoker will die prematurely from a complication of smoking is approximately 50%.
Tobacco use is a major cause of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary disease. Cigarette smoking is also a risk factor for respiratory tract and other infections, osteoporosis, reproductive disorders, adverse postoperative events and delayed wound healing, duodenal and gastric ulcers,... [Extract] |
Domaine : | Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette |
Sous-type de document : | Revue de la littérature / Literature review |
Refs biblio. : | 80 |
Affiliation : | Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of California, San Francisco, Box 1220, San Francisco, CA 94143-1220, United States / Etats-Unis |
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