A Critique of Nicotine Addiction

• Main Authors: Frenk, Hanan (Author), Dar, Reuven (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: Neurobiological Foundation of Aberrant Behaviors, 2
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Neurology.; Clinical psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

Nicotine is almost universally believed to be the major factor that motivates smoking and impedes cessation. Authorities such as the Surgeon General of the USA and the Royal College of Physicians in the UK have declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. This book is a critique of...