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Electronic cigarette survey characteristics
Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020 Introduction Electronic cigarettes (EC) remain a controversial topic with uncertainty about harm reduction in current smokers, their efficacy in smoking cessation, their potential for addiction, the need for regulation, and the type of information needed
Jonathan Kopel +2 more
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Nicotine Levels in Electronic Cigarettes [PDF]
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2012 The electronic cigarette (EC) is a plastic device that imitates conventional cigarettes and was developed to deliver nicotine in a toxin-free vapor. Nicotine in a solution is heated and vaporized when a person puffs through the device and is inhaled as a vapor into the mouth.
Goniewicz, Maciej +4 more
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Acute effects of electronic cigarette smoking on heart rate variability
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Biologia, 2017 Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to a temporal variation between consecutive heart beats and is considered a measure of the balance between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Ștefan-Claudiu MIRESCU +4 more
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Electronic cigarette: A review
Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2014 The principal addictive component of tobacco smoke is nicotine. The mechanisms of nicotine addiction are highly complex and are responsible for maintenance of smoking behaviour. Use of electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes), devices that deliver a nicotine
Vinay Mahishale
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Prevalence of Electronic Cigarette Use Among University Students: Predictors and Mediators
Addicta: The Turkish Journal on AddictionsThis study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors affecting the use of electronic cigarettes among university students. This cross-sectional study included 987 participants.
Burak Mete +3 more
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Electronic cigarettes: pro [PDF]
Thorax, 2015 Smoking destroys lives, and does so from the point of conception. In 2014 smoking is likely to have caused the death of over 5000 unborn or newly born babies, over 20 000 babies to be born prematurely or with low birth weight, 40 sudden infant deaths and over 165 000 new cases of childhood illness.1 Smoking in England alone will have killed around 80 ...
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Vascular Disease, Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs and Risk of Parkinson's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives A history of vascular disease has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, but this may be due to reverse causation. In addition, non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs are thought to reduce Parkinson's disease risk, but evidence is inconsistent and confounding by prior vascular disease is possible ...
Clare Wotton +4 more
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A new human-based offensive defensive optimization algorithm for solving optimization problems
Scientific ReportsA novel human-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, termed Offensive Defensive Optimization, has been introduced to address single-objective optimization problems. This algorithm draws inspiration from the varied strategies utilized by players in board games,
Ning Fang +3 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 E‐cigarette or vaping product use–associated lung injury was recognized in the United States in the summer of 2019 and is typified by acute respiratory distress, shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and fever, associated with vaping. It can mimic many
Michael T. Kleinman +10 more
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