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By Frank A. Sloan, V. Kerry Smith, and Donald H. Taylor, Jr. 273 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003. $55. ISBN 0-674-01039-6.

Warning: the surgeon general has determined that smoking cigarettes increases the chance that you will need to ask your closest friends and relatives to assist you in bathing, using the bathroom, preparing meals, shopping, and taking care of your most basic necessities during the last months or years of your life.

This warning label does not appear in the scholarly book by Sloan and his coauthors, but if the avenue of research they propose is carried out, something like it may be used in the not-too-distant future. In this book, the authors have taken on the tasks of developing and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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