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Previous Volume 331:751 September 15, 1994 Number 11

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Edited by C. Tracy Orleans and John Slade. 435 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $55. ISBN 0-19-506441-0.

Smoking is the greatest preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Yet most medical libraries have a limited number of works, if any, on the treatment of smoking. This deficiency has been due, in part, to the absence of a well-written textbook, a lack that Nicotine Addiction clearly corrects.

Specific chapters in the book will be of interest to clinicians (chapter 8, on stepped-care models of treatment, for example), behavioral scientists (chapter 4, on the determinants of the initiation and cessation of smoking), public health workers (chapter 21, on community interventions), and health care administrators (chapter 3, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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