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Susceptibility to smoking and determinants among never-smoking high school students in Thailand
Tobacco 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
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The Application of Foundation Pit Monitoring Technology to the Excavation
MATEC 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
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Journal 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
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The Cigarette Controversy [PDF]
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2007 AbstractThis study examines the history of the cigarette controversy using the tobacco documents as a roadmap to explore the following four questions: (a) What did tobacco companies know about the health risks of smoking and when did they know it? (b) What evidence is there that tobacco companies conspired to deliberately mislead the public about the ...
K Michael, Cummings +2 more
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A Note on Smoking Behavior and Health Risk Taking
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2012 This research note presents two economic frameworks to describe the relationship between individual health risk aversion and smoking behavior. Using a large-scale representative data set (GSOEP), direct empirical evidence is found that individuals, who ...
Christian Pfeifer
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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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European Heart Journal Supplements, 2020 Abstract Despite significant efforts during the last decades, cigarette smoking still remains prevalent. Discouraging the use of all tobacco products, it is certainly the most effective mean to enhance public health, but complete prohibition is unlikely to succeed.
Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe +3 more
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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021 Crawford Moodie,* Kathryn Angus,* Martine Stead* Institute for Social Marketing and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Crawford ...
Moodie C, Angus K, Stead M
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Cigarettes and addiction [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 Unless the prevalence of smoking falls substantially, 0.5 billion of the world's present population will die prematurely from disease caused by tobacco.1 Without considerable changes in the regulation of products that deliver nicotine it will be difficult to achieve substantial further falls in mortality in the United States or to reduce tobacco ...
Henningfield, Jack E, Benowitz, Neal L
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Efficient expression of a novel α-amylase for reduction of tobacco starch and smoke hazard
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe combustion of excessive starch in tobacco leaves leads to more harmful substances, adversely affecting the sensory properties of tobacco and posing significant risks to human health.
Zongchen Han +9 more
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