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This title addresses the role of passive smoking in causing the multiple aspects of cardiovascular damage under biochemical, physiological, pathological, clinical, epidemiological and statistic all aspects.

There is a strong relationship between cigarette smoking and the risk of cardiovascular events. Smoking influences negatively coagulation - fibrinolysis cascade at any level, although it acts primarily on those pathways that are most important for an effective clot formation: endothelium, platelets, and fibronogen.

Smoking causes cardiovascular disease and cancer. Advertising should be more effective and directed to all population worldwide. Epidemiological findings undoubtedly show that both active smokers and nonsmokers passively exposed to tobacco products meet severe alterations to several body organs, primarily heart and blood vessels, and respiratory system, which may be considered as target organs of tobacco smoke.Sudden cardiac death may occur in both active smokers and individuals exposed to passive smoking, although with lesser rate.

The contents of the present volume focus on the relationship between passive smoking and cardiovascular pathology. Findings concerning the harmful effects of passive smoking, namely isolated or public exposure to someone else's smoking, began in the 1970's. This new and significant book reflects the current views on the relationship between cardiovascular pathology and passive smoking providing the main achievements obtained with the findings on the subject. The book presents the factors that influence negatively both a normal and diseased heart and blood vessles of nonsmokers exposed to...