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Cigarette Smoking and Asthma [PDF]

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2022
Globally, around half the adult asthma population are current or former cigarette smokers. Cigarette smoking and asthma interact to induce an "asthma-smoking phenotype(s)," which has important implications for diagnosis, pathogenic mechanisms, and management.
Thomson, Neil C, Polosa, Riccardo, Sin, Don D   +2 more
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Cigarette Smoking [PDF]

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1999
Cigarette smoking is the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Dramatic changes in the prevalence of cigarette smoking in the second half of this century in the United States (i.e., a reduction among men and an increase among women) have reduced current smoking levels to approximately one quarter of the ...
A W, Bergen, N, Caporaso
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Cigarette Smoke and Cancer [PDF]

Journal of Oncology, 2011
Increased tobacco smoke exposure positively correlates with a wide variety of cancers including those of lung, breast, pancreas, and prostate cancer. There are about 250 chemicals present in tobacco that have been linked to cancer. Smokeless tobacco, in the form of chewed tobacco leaves, snuff, and betel quid, has also been linked to oral and ...
Sushant Kachhap, Venkateshwar G. Keshamouni, David Z. Qian, Aditi Chatterjee   +3 more
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020
Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are handheld electronic vaping devices which produce an aerosol formed by heating an e-liquid. Some people who smoke use ECs to stop or reduce smoking, but some organizations, advocacy groups and policymakers have discouraged this, citing lack of evidence of efficacy and safety.
Hartmann-Boyce, J, McRobbie, H, Lindson, N, Bullen, C, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Butler, AR, Fanshawe, TR, Hajek, P   +11 more
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Adolescent E-Cigarette Users’ Perceptions of the Harm and Addictiveness of Conventional Cigarette Smoking [PDF]

, 2017
As the popularity of e-cigarettes continues to rise and their link with conventional cigarette smoking becomes clearer, it is important to understand how e-cigarette users compare with non-users, conventional cigarette smokers, and dual users on ...
Loukas, Alexandra, Maslowsky, Julie, Owotomo, Olusegun   +2 more
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E-cigarette use among women of reproductive age: Impulsivity, cigarette smoking status, and other risk factors. [PDF]

, 2016
INTRODUCTION: The study aim was to examine impulsivity and other risk factors for e-cigarette use among women of reproductive age comparing current daily cigarette smokers to never cigarette smokers.
Chivers, Laura L., Hand, Dennis J., Higgins, Stephen T., Priest, Jeff S.   +3 more
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Asthma and cigarette smoking [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2004
In most developed countries ∼25% of adults with asthma are current cigarette smokers. Asthma and active cigarette smoking interact to cause more severe symptoms, accelerated decline in lung function, and impaired short-term therapeutic response to corticosteroids.Cigarette smoking may modify inflammation that is associated with asthma, although there ...
Eric Livingston, Neil C. Thomson, Rekha Chaudhuri   +2 more
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Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity? [PDF]

, 2006
The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced smoking is increasing weight gain in the U.S.. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Chou et al.
Frakes, Michael D., Gruber, Jonathan
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Cigarette smoking and gastric cancer in the stomach cancer pooling (StoP) project [PDF]

, 2018
Tobacco smoking is a known cause of gastric cancer, but several aspects of the association remain imprecisely quantified. We examined the relation between cigarette smoking and the risk of gastric cancer using a uniquely large dataset of 23 ...
Agudo, Boccia, Bonequi, Buiatti, Castaño-Vinyals, De Feo, Deandrea, Derakhshan, DerSimonian, Dyke, Freedman, González, Harris, Higgins, Ioannidis, Kamangar, Kim, Kneller, Koizumi, La Torre, La Vecchia, Ladeiras-Lopes, Lagiou, Lee, Lindblad, Lucenteforte, Lunet, Mao, Matsuo, Mirvish, Mu, Nomura, Pakseresht, Peleteiro, Pelucchi, Poplawski, Pourfarzi, Rota, Royston, Santibañez, Setiawan, Setiawan, Smith-Warner, Steevens, Tayler, Tramacere, Trédaniel, Ye, Zaridze, Zendehdel, Zhang   +50 more
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Cigarette Smoking and Infection [PDF]

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004
Infectious diseases may rival cancer, heart disease, and chronic lung disease as sources of morbidity and mortality from smoking. We reviewed mechanisms by which smoking increases the risk of infection and the epidemiology of smoking-related infection, and delineated implications of this increased risk of infection among cigarette smokers.The MEDLINE ...
Lidia Arcavi, Neal L. Benowitz
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