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Prevalence, Reasons for Use, and Risk Perception of Electronic Cigarettes among Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Smokers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose—The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has risen dramatically in recent years. However, there is currently no published data on use of e-cigarettes among cardiac patients. The current study reports on the prevalence, reasons for use, and
Busch, Andrew M., Tooley, Erin M.
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Comparing cigarette-cue attentional bias between people with HIV/AIDS and people with opioid use disorder who smoke

open access: yesHealth Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2023
Background Special populations like people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and people with opioid use disorder (OUD) smoke tobacco cigarettes at rates three to four times greater than the general population.
Gopalkumar Rakesh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

E-cigarettes, a safer alternative for teenagers? A UK focus group study of teenagers' views [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Objective: Concerns exist that e-cigarettes may be a gateway to traditional cigarettes and/or (re)normalise teenage smoking. This qualitative study explores how teenagers in the UK currently perceive e-cigarettes and how and why they do or do not use ...
Hilton, Shona   +4 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Varenicline for Smoking Cessation in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Objective: Smoking represents a major public health problem among patients with schizophrenia. To this end, some studies have investigated the efficacy of varenicline for facilitating smoking cessation in schizophrenia patients.
Saeed Ahmed   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Illicit trade and real prices of cigarettes in Chile

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction The tobacco industry claims that tobacco taxes are responsible for increased illicit trade in Chile, which they estimated at 37% in 2022. However, the evolution of cigarette consumption, estimated from population surveys, and of tax-paying ...
Guillermo Paraje   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vom Luxus zum Risiko

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2019
This essay tracks the dynamic and inextricably bound interactions between the cigarette’s changing spheres of production and consumption, the connected distributional practices and socio-political regulations as well as the material or rather immaterial ‘
Gerulf Hirt
doaj   +1 more source

Smoking in patients with schizophrenia : “No smoking without fire”

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction More than half patients with schizophrenia are smokers. Heavy smoking has been correlated to more severe positive symptoms, a higher number of hospitalizations and a less efficiency of antipsychotics.
B. Abassi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Susceptibility to smoking and determinants among never-smoking high school students in Thailand

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction To prevent youth from becoming smokers, it is essential to understand factors contributing to them becoming susceptible to smoking. The aim of this study was thus to estimate the prevalence of smoking susceptibility among neversmoking youth ...
Chakkraphan Phetphum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Application of Foundation Pit Monitoring Technology to the Excavation

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2015
The foundation pit monitoring plays an important role in the foundation pit supporting projects especially in those deep foundation pit projects. Through the whole monitoring of the foundation pit construction from the excavation to the backfill, we can ...
Qiu Jin, Li Fei
doaj   +1 more source

Does hookah smoking carry less cardiovascular risks than cigarette smoking in patients presenting with myocardial infarction?

open access: yesJournal of Nature and Science of Medicine, 2020
Introduction: Smoking is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. There is an increase in the prevalence of hookah smoking in both genders and among all age groups in Saudi Arabia with the misconception that hookah smoking carries less risk ...
Turki B Albacker   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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