{"title":"Tobacco and law enforcement officers.","authors":"Virginia Cullen Reichert, Patricia Folan, Lynn Villano, Nina Kohn, Christine Metz","doi":"10.1016/j.coem.2005.10.008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The literature on the prevalence of health hazards faced by law enforcement officers indicates that they are at high risk for several morbid diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. To mitigate these risks, quitting smoking is of the utmost importance. This article focuses on reducing tobacco consumption by law enforcement officers in New York.</p>","PeriodicalId":87077,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in occupational and environmental medicine","volume":"5 1","pages":"43-54, viii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinics in occupational and environmental medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coem.2005.10.008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The literature on the prevalence of health hazards faced by law enforcement officers indicates that they are at high risk for several morbid diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. To mitigate these risks, quitting smoking is of the utmost importance. This article focuses on reducing tobacco consumption by law enforcement officers in New York.