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Cigarettes and Cigarette Smoking
Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1991Tobacco use was widespread in the New World by the time of the first voyage of Columbus; however, it is only in the last century that the use of tobacco as cigarettes has been prevalent. The milder tobacco and more acidic smoke of cigarettes lead to the deeper inhalation of tobacco into the lung with resultant deposition and absorption of the addicting,
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Cigarette Smoking and Hypertension
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2010Cigarette smoking is a powerful cardiovascular risk factor and smoking cessation is the single most effective lifestyle measure for the prevention of a large number of cardiovascular diseases. Impairment of endothelial function, arterial stiffness, inflammation, lipid modification as well as an alteration of antithrombotic and prothrombotic factors are
VIRDIS, AGOSTINO +4 more
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Cigarette Smoking and the Thyroid
Thyroid, 1994Relevant English language articles published from 1970 through 1993 regarding the possible influence of cigarette smoking on the thyroid were identified through a MEDLINE search and manual searches of identified articles. Thiocyanate in tobacco smoke influences the thyroid by a competitive inhibition of iodine uptake and organification in the gland ...
Laszlo Hegedüs, Jette B. Bertelsen
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Coal Smoke and Cigarette Smoke
New England Journal of Medicine, 1981Air pollution from coal smoke brings to mind the grimy cities of the 19th century and the evils accompanying the industrial revolution. It was natural to assume that the polluted air was responsible for many instances of pulmonary disease and that the removal of coal smoke would greatly improve the health of the residents of cities with a heavy burden ...
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Cigarette Smoking and Apoptosis
Journal of Periodontology, 2005Background: Epithelial cell hyperplasia and significant increase in thickness of the overlying orthokeratin layer are characteristic findings noted in the oral cavity of subjects who smoke. Increased proliferation of epithelial cells or defective apoptosis may play a role in the development of epithelial hyperplasia.
E.E. Alaaddinoĝlu +4 more
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Cigarette smoking and infertility
Fertility and Sterility, 1986PIP: There is consensus that smoking during pregnancy has deleterious effects upon both mother and baby. Smokers who use oral contraceptives run a greater risk of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease after age 35 than do nonsmokers. Smokers have more problems with osteoporosis, and lung cancer in women is on the rise and clearly associated with ...
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Cigarette Smoking Contagion [PDF]
International Journal of the Addictions, 1980 A ministudy was carried out with 50 male and female adults who are "regular" cigarette smokers to investigate the potential role(s) which contagion plays in smoking. Notwithstanding their reports that they were introduced to smoking by others 40% of the time, only 12% reported-remembered initiating someone else to smoking.
Stanley Einstein, Ariela Epstein
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Cigarette smoking and diabetes
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 2003Smokers are insulin resistant, exhibit several aspects of the insulin resistance syndrome, and are at an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. Prospectively, the increased risk for diabetes in smoking men and women is around 50%. Many patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus are at risk for micro- and macrovascular complications.
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Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998
Responses of 18 smokers and 165 nonsmokers to two items which assessed experience with symptoms of bruxism were compared. Smokers were about three times more likely to experience symptoms of bruxism but not over-all stressful experience.
Samara Madrid +3 more
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Responses of 18 smokers and 165 nonsmokers to two items which assessed experience with symptoms of bruxism were compared. Smokers were about three times more likely to experience symptoms of bruxism but not over-all stressful experience.
Samara Madrid +3 more
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Cigarette smoking in pregnancy
Medical Journal of Australia, 1988PIP: It is likely that the most important example of passive smoking is that which is imposed on the fetus. An article in the April 18, 1988, issue of the "Medical Journal of Australia" makes it clear (Condon and Hilton) that great difficulties will be faced in dealing with the effects of smoking during pregnancy. Gritz (1980) examined the evidence for
Gerald Rosen, Aidan Foy
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