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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... -
"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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Smoking and nasopharyngeal carcinoma mortality: a cohort study of 101,823 adu...
Background Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), also known as Cantonese cancer, is rare worldwide, but has particularly high incidence in North Africa and Southeast Asia, especially... -
Evidence for the low recording of weight status and lifestyle risk factors in...
Background To examine the prevalence of lifestyle diagnosis codes recorded in the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP). Methods We identified all hospital contacts in... -
Quit outcomes among clients ineligible for cessation medication through the s...
Background Distribution of tobacco cessation medications through state quitlines increases service utilization and quit outcomes. However, some state quitlines have moved to... -
Evaluation of the Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) program in California
Author(s): McMenamin, Sara B; Cummins, Sharon E; Zhuang, Yue-Lin; Gamst, Anthony C; Ruiz, Carlos G; Mayoral, Antonio; Zhu, Shu-Hong | Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The... -
Absence of multiplicative interactions between occupational lung carcinogens ...
Background Tobacco smoking is the main cause of lung cancer, but it is not the sole causal factor. Significant proportions of workers are smokers and exposed to occupational... -
Quantification of the smoking-associated cancer risk with rate advancement pe...
Source: doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0607-5 Background: Smoking is the most important individual risk factor for many cancer sites but its association with breast and prostate... -
Airway wall thickness on HRCT scans decreases with age and increases with smo...
Background To investigate if age, gender and smoking are associated with airway wall thickness (AWT) measured by high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and if higher AWT is... -
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Background Between 1997 and 2010, the English government pursued an ambitious programme to reduce health inequalities, the explicit and sustained commitment of which was... -
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Background A healthy lifestyle can be beneficial for one’s mental health. Thus, identifying healthy lifestyle choices that promote psychological well-being and reduce mental... -
Does continuous trusted adult support in childhood impart life-course resilie...
Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) including child abuse and household problems (e.g. domestic violence) increase risks of poor health and mental well-being in... -
Effects of tobacco exposure on perinatal suicidal ideation, depression, and a...
Background Previous studies have stressed the importance of tobacco exposure for the mood disorders of depression and anxiety. Although a few studies have focused on perinatal...
