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"Diseases Caused by Smoking" (published in 1998) is a comprehensive and extremely important public health monograph by Prof. Dr. Sc. Zdravko Ebling, a distinguished Croatian physician and expert in the field of family and general medicine. The book was created with the aim of raising awareness of the dramatic consequences of tobacco product consumption and providing professional guidelines to physicians and healthcare professionals in the fight against nicotine addiction. The book provides a detailed and systematic analysis of the pathophysiological mechanisms through which cigarette smoke and its chemical components (nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide and numerous carcinogens) damage the human body. The author describes in detail a wide range of diseases directly related to smoking, with special emphasis on cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, hypertension, atherosclerosis), obstructive respiratory diseases (chronic bronchitis, emphysema) and malignant tumors (lung, larynx, bladder cancer, etc.). In addition to physiological damage, the work also analyzes epidemiological data, the harmful effects of passive smoking on the environment, and the psychological and social aspects of addiction. Special attention is paid to primary prevention, methods of quitting smoking in the practice of family doctors, and the role of the health system and society in combating this global epidemic. Written in professional, scientifically based and clear language, Dr. Zdravko Ebling's monograph is a valuable manual for doctors, medical students and health workers, but also an instructive read for anyone who wants to understand the real extent of the harm that smoking causes to human health.