`This book is unique in providing a comprehensive and readable account of the state of knowledge......This book is particularly strong in the uniformly high quality of the contributions' Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Jerome H. Jaffe: Tobacco, smoking, and nicotine dependence; Michael D.B. Swedburg, Jack E. Henningfield, & Steven R. Goldberg: Evidence of nicotine dependency from animal studies: self-administration, tolerance, and withdrawal; David M. Warburton: Psychopharmacological aspects of nicotine; Neal L. Benowitz, Herve Porchet, & Peyton Jacob: Pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and pharmacodynamics of nicotine; Paul B.S. Clarke: The central pharmacology of nicotine:
electrophysiological approaches; Kjell Fuxe, Kurt Andersson, Anders Härfstrand, Peter Eneroth, Miguel Perez de la Mora, & Luigi F. Agnati: Effects of nicotine on synaptic transmission in the brain; S. Wonnacott: Characterization of nicotine receptor sites in the brain; I. P. Stolerman: Behavioural pharmacology
of nicotine in animals; C. Reavill: Actions of nicotine on dopamine pathways and implications for Parkinson's disease; Kenneth J. Kellar & S. Wonnacott: Nicotinic-cholinergic receptors in Alzheimer's disease; M.A.H. Russell: Nicotine intake and its control over smoking; Index.