This volume contains an extensive introduction to the health consequences of tobacco use and extended annotations of the most important English-language monographs and articles to appear on the subject in the 1980s and 1990s arranged in classified order under select headings. The introductory analytical essay by Richard A. Gray covers: early and recent history of research, findings of a 1979 report on smoking and disease, other diseases as complications, smoking and industrial toxins, and a description of the bibliography. The bibliography covers 106 books and articles published between 1980 and 1994 with most appearing between 1990 and 1994, as well as the surgeon general's reports published from 1979 through 1985. The annotations are grouped under the following topics: addiction; cancer; cardiovascular diseases; chronic obstructive lung diseases; women, smoking, and pregnancy; tobacco-related diseases, weight gain, and smokeless tobacco; nutrition and environmental tobacco smoke; children, adolescents, and smoking (including smoking prevention programs, research on adolescent smoking, and cigarette advertising and young smokers); psychology and fertility; smoking career; and smoking cessation. Includes author and title indexes. (JB)