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- Assessment of the tobacco toxicity

ASSESSMENT OF THE TOBACCO TOXICITY


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The physician asks the following questions to his smoker patient in order to assess the degree of tobacco poisoning:

- How many cigarettes a day do you smoke?

- Nicotine rate of your cigarettes?

- Do you inhale smoke?

- When do you smoke most?

- At what moment after awakening do you smoke your first cigarette?

- Which cigarette appears most indispensable to you?

- Do you find it difficult not to smoke in the forbidden places?

- Do you smoke even though an illness obliges you to remain in bed?

This test is called the FAGERSTRÖM’s test and according to its result, the detoxification will be adapted.

File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011

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