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"Right to recommend, wrong to require"- an empirical and philosophical study ...
Background In many countries, there are health care initiatives to make smokers give up smoking in the peri-operative setting. There is empirical evidence that this may improve... -
Albuminuria and its associated biomedical factors among indigenous adults in ...
Background To document albuminuria prevalence and its associated factors in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (TSI) adults with high renal and metabolic risks from 19 rural... -
Empowering smokers with a web-assisted tobacco intervention to use prescripti...
Background Varenicline and bupropion, efficacious smoking cessation medications, have had suboptimal impact due to barriers at the patient, practitioner and system level. This... -
"A Good Personal Scientific Relationship":Philip Morris Scientists and the Ch...
Background This paper examines the efforts of consultants affiliated with Philip Morris (PM), the world's leading transnational tobacco corporation, to influence scientific... -
Anti-tobacco control industry strategies in Turkey
Background Transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) penetrated the Turkish cigarette market due to trade and investment liberalization in the post-1980 period and eventually... -
Different survival analysis methods for measuring long-term outcomes of Indig...
Background Net survival is the most common measure of cancer prognosis and has been used to study differentials in cancer survival between ethnic or racial population subgroups.... -
Low cigarette smoking prevalence in peri-urban Peru: results from a populatio...
Background A recent study found lower self-reported prevalence of tobacco smoking in a peri-urban area of Lima, Peru than previously reported in urban samples. These regions... -
Use of aids for smoking cessation and alcohol reduction: A population survey ...
Background It is important for policy planning to chart the methods smokers and high-risk drinkers use to help them change their behaviour. This study assessed prevalence of... -
Smoking and finances: baseline characteristics of low income daily smokers in...
Background Financial stress is a barrier to successful smoking cessation and a key predictor of relapse. Little is known about the financial situation of low-income Australian... -
Are women who quit smoking at high risk of excess weight gain throughout preg...
Background Smoking cessation has been reported to be associated with high total gestational weight gain (GWG), which itself is a risk factor for adverse maternal-infant... -
The BeHealthyR Study: a randomized trial of a multicomponent intervention to ...
Background Compared to higher socioeconomic status (SES) groups, those in lower SES groups are financially strained, experience higher rates of smoking-related morbidity, are in... -
It’s Not All About Price: Factors associated with roll-your-own tobacco use a...
Background Smoking prevalence in Ireland is falling in all age groups, but the prevalence of roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco use is rising among young people. This qualitative study... -
Additional file 1 of Supporting mental health service users to stop smoking: ...
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Earlier smoking after waking and the risk of asthma: a cross-sectional study ...
Background Recent research shows that nicotine dependence conveys additional health risks above and beyond smoking behavior. The current study examines whether smoking within 5... -
Lower hypoxic ventilatory response in smokers compared to non-smokers during ...
Background Carotid body O2-chemosensitivity determines the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) as part of crucial regulatory reflex within oxygen homeostasis. Nicotine has been... -
Financial IncEntives for Smoking TreAtment: protocol of the FIESTA trial and ...
Background Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, but evidence-based smoking cessation therapy is underutilized. Financial incentive strategies... -
An organisational change intervention for increasing the delivery of smoking ...
Background The provision of smoking cessation support in Australian drug and alcohol treatment services is sub-optimal. This study examines the cost-effectiveness of an... -
Causal effect of smoking on DNA methylation in peripheral blood: a twin and f...
Background Smoking has been reported to be associated with peripheral blood DNA methylation, but the causal aspects of the association have rarely been investigated. We aimed to... -
STOP smoking and alcohol drinking before OPeration for bladder cancer (the S...
Background To evaluate the effect of a smoking-, alcohol- or combined-cessation intervention starting shortly before surgery and lasting 6 weeks on overall complications after... -
Internal living environment and respiratory disease in children: findings fro...
Background The incidence of early childhood acute respiratory infections (ARIs) has been associated with aspects of the indoor environment. In recent years, public awareness...
