Cigarette smoke toxicity : linking individual chemicals to human diseases /
Smoking causes and contributes to a large number of human diseases, yet due to the large number of potentially hazardous compounds in cigarette smoke -- almost 5,000 chemicals have been identified, establishing the link between smoking and disease has often proved difficult. This unbiased and scient...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH ;
2011.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | Smoking causes and contributes to a large number of human diseases, yet due to the large number of potentially hazardous compounds in cigarette smoke -- almost 5,000 chemicals have been identified, establishing the link between smoking and disease has often proved difficult. This unbiased and scientifically accurate overview of current knowledge begins with an overview of the chemical constituents in cigarette smoke, their fate in the human body, and their documented toxic effects on various cells and tissues. Recent results detailing the many ways components of cigarette smoke adversely affec. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783527635344 3527635343 9783527635320 3527635327 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9783527635320 |
