tobacco abuse [ tobacco dependency | tobacco addiction ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

tobacco abuse | abuse of tobacco

Family history of tobacco abuse

nicotinism | tabagism | tobacco abuse

homogenized leaf [ reconstituted binder leaf | homogenized tobacco | homogenized tobacco leaf | sheet tobacco | reconstituted tobacco ]

form of abuse [ form of abuse or neglect | form of maltreatment | form of mistreatment | form of violence | type of abuse and neglect | type of abuse | type of maltreatment | type of mistreatment | type of violence | kind of abuse ]

flake-cut tobacco | flake tobacco | sliced plug tobacco

tobacco industry | tobacco processing industry | tobacco manufacturing industry

Beside its focus on active living, injury prevention and nutritional wellness, the initiative includes: “Addiction Free” (alcohol and other drug abuse, tobacco use cessation, problem gambling) and “Social Wellness” (stress management, anger management, family violence prevention, healthy families, suicide prevention, and spirituality).[421]

This has not been the case: I am referring to drug abuse, alcohol abuse, tobacco abuse, food and Internet addictions.

We deliver a range of programs and services in environmental health and protection and have responsibilities in the areas of substance abuse, tobacco policy, workplace health and safety, and safe use of consumer products.

17. Is aware that policies on alcohol and smoking, and on drug abuse and prescription medication abuse, are primarily matters for the Member States, but encourages the Commission to play a proactive role in collecting and passing on the experiences of the individual Member States, as it proposes in its Communication on an EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol-related harm (COM(2006)0625) and to initiate a consultation process and an open public debate on the best way of continuing the fight against passive smoking, as it proposes in its Green Paper ‘Towards a Europe free from tobacco ...[+++] smoke: policy options at EU level’ (COM(2007)0027);