Breathing poison
Subtitle: smoking, pollution and the haze
By: Anthony Rebuck
Publisher: Partridge, a Penguin Random House Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781482898071; 9781482898088; 9781482898095
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Lungs; Obstructive Diseases; Smoking; Air; Pollution; Poumons; Maladies obstructives; Tabagisme
Notes: "There is a triple threat in the Asian air to human health and well-being. First, we are going to see an increase in tobacco-attributable deaths as more and more people smoke. Much of this mortality, as well as crippling chronic lung disease, can be prevented if smokers stop smoking. Secondly, additional suffering, disability and premature death from lung disease can be prevented if pollution - Asian pollution being the worst in the world - can be reduced. And lastly, the coughing, wheezing and attacks of bronchitis caused by the uniquely Asian problem of the haze would be eliminated if the illegal practice of slash & burn is prohibited"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-153).
Table of contents: title: Breathing poison; title: Cough; title: Asthma; title: COPD: what is it, and why is it so difficult to understand?; title: Is COPD fatal?; title: How common is COPD in Asia?; title: Management of COPD: smoking cessation, oxygen, surgery and rehabilitiation; title: Treatment of COPD: pharmacological therapy; title: COPD research: drugs in the pipeline; title: COPD action plans: surely there is more we can do; title: Lung-function testing in COPD: is the FEV out-dated?; title: COPD and diabetes: time bombs and gathering storms.