Can Imaging Techniques Identify Smoking-Related Cardiovascular Disease?
Pp. 2578-2585 Maria Filomena Santarelli, Linda Landini, Vincenzo Positano and Luigi Landini [Abstract] [Purchase Article] Nicotine Addiction and Coronary Artery Disease: Impact of Cessation Interventions Pp. 2586-2597 Oliver Gaemperli, Riccardo Liga, Paul Bhamra-Ariza and Ornella Rimoldi [Abstract] [Purchase Article] Abstracts [Back to top] [Purchase Article] What is Tobacco Smoke? Sociocultural Dimensions of the Association with Cardiovascular Risk Aldo Leone, Linda Landini and Aurelio Leone The definition of smoking as the inhalation of the smoke of burned tobacco that may occur occasionally or habitually as a consequence of a physical addiction to some chemicals, primarily nicotine, cannot be fully accepted today since several clinical, biological, metabolic, epidemiologic, statistic and socio-economic factors which play a basic role in determining individual damage due to smoking are missing in this assessment. The analysis of findings shows undoubtedly that several constituents of
