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Tobacco and the Clinician: Interventions for Medical and Dental Practice
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Donald R. Shopland, David M. Burns, Stuart J. Cohen, Thomas E. Kottke, and Ellen R. Gritz; eds. 389 pages. Bethesda, Maryland: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 1994. Free.
Currently, in the United States, active smoking is the leading preventable cause of death, and passive smoking is the third leading preventable cause of death. Therefore, it is important for all health care professionals to help smokers stop smoking and to encourage nonsmokers, especially children and adolescents, not to begin smoking. It is also important for all health care professionals to support policies that discourage smoking.
The monograph Tobacco and the Clinician, the fifth in the National Cancer Institute's Smoking and Tobacco Control series, is written and edited by experts who provide scientific information vital to all health care professionals.
The foreword, written by Dr. Philip R. Lee, clearly depicts how the tobacco industry used health themes and medical personnel in cigarette advertising. The preface by Dr. Samuel Broder includes a brief physician and dentist protocol for patient smoking cessation. Dr. Broder states, "Cigarette smoking is still this Nation's largest cause of premature death and disability and remains the only product that, when used as intended by the manufacturer, will kill the consumer. Every physician and dentist can and should become a smoking expert to counter the pervasive attempts by the tobacco industry to convince smokers and would-be smokers that smoking is desirable, sexy, or fun."
Chapter 1 discusses strategies for office-based smoking cessation assistance. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss training of physicians, dentists, and office staffs in smoking cessation interventions. Chapter 4 discusses smoking prevention and cessation in special practice settings. Chapter 5 covers dissemination, facilitation, and maintenance of office-based cessation assistance.
Every chapter in this book is informative and should be read by all involved in health care.
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