Over the past years, tobacco use has become a major
health policy concern in the U.S.. Tobacco use
causes preventable diseases which lead to high
health care costs. These diseases in turn reduce
productivity on the labor force. Furthermore,
secondhand smoke threatens the health of nonsmokers.
Each year, over 400,000 tobacco users in the U.S. die
from tobacco-related diseases and nearly 50,000 adult
nonsmokers are reported dead from secondhand smoke.
This book examined four major factors related to
tobacco use namely: smokefree air policies,
political factors, health-related quality of...