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Educational inequalities in perinatal outcomes: the mediating effect of smoking and environmental tobacco exposure. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
OBJECTIVE: Socioeconomic status (SES) is adversely associated with perinatal outcomes. This association is likely to be mediated by tobacco exposure.
Gerrit van den Berg, Manon van Eijsden, Tanja G M Vrijkotte, Reinoud J B J Gemke   +3 more
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Adaptation of an amphibian mucociliary clearance model to evaluate early effects of tobacco smoke exposure

Respiratory Research, 2004
Rationale Inhaled side-stream tobacco smoke brings in all of its harmful components impairing mechanisms that protect the airways and lungs. Chronic respiratory health consequences are a complex multi-step silent process.
Lim Leonard, Ding Jie, Tai Shusheng, O'Brien Darryl W, Zayas J Gustavo, King Malcolm   +5 more
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Epigenetic impacts of maternal tobacco and e-vapour exposure on the offspring lung

Clinical Epigenetics, 2019
In utero exposure to tobacco products, whether maternal or environmental, have harmful effects on first neonatal and later adult respiratory outcomes. These effects have been shown to persist across subsequent generations, regardless of the offsprings ...
Razia Zakarya, Ian Adcock, Brian G. Oliver   +2 more
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A prospective cohort study of biomarkers of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure: the correlation between serum and meconium and their association with infant birth weight

Environmental Health, 2010
Background The evaluation of infant meconium as a cumulative matrix of prenatal toxicant exposure requires comparison to established biomarkers of prenatal exposure.
Braun Joe M, Daniels Julie L, Poole Charles, Olshan Andrew F, Hornung Richard, Bernert John T, Xia Yang, Bearer Cynthia, Barr Dana, Lanphear Bruce P   +9 more
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Implementation of smoke-free homes in Poland

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2016
Objectives: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) constitutes a threat to the health of many people. In order to diminish ETS exposure, countries (including Poland) implemented legal restrictions of smoking in public places and worksites ...
Dorota Kaleta, Adam Fronczak, Bukola Usidame, Elżbieta Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska, Piotr Wojtysiak   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Tobacco Smoke [PDF]

, 2000
Difficulties in Determining Health Effects Related to Environmental Smoke Exposure, Peter N. Lee Birthweight and Gestational Age in Relation to Prenatal Environmental Smoke Exposure, Gayle C. Wyndham, Ph.D. Antioxidant Vitamins in Reducing the Toxicity of Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Ronald R. Watson, Ph.D.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Development of a Web-Based Tobacco Tracker Tool to Crowdsource Campus Environmental Reports for Smoke and Tobacco–Free College Policies: Mixed Methods Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
BackgroundCollege campuses in the United States have begun implementing smoke and tobacco–free policies to discourage the use of tobacco. Smoke and tobacco–free policies, however, are contingent upon effective policy enforcement.
Sabrina F Loureiro, Kim Pulvers, Melissa M Gosdin, Keavagh Clift, Myra Rice, Elisa K Tong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental exposure of pregnant women to tobacco smoke and selected socio-economic factors

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
Introduction. Exposure of pregnant women constitutes the risk to procreative health, correct process of pregnancy, health of newborn babies and children in further years. According to GATS, 14.1 mln of Poles are exposed to inhalation of tobacco smoke. In
Paweł Kalinowski, Ewelina Kozłowska, Michał Woś, Anna Kobiałka, Eliza Wołoszynek, Maria Bożenna Wawrzycka, Henryk Wiktor   +6 more
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Residential exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, and its associates: Findings from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Poland

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2015
Objectives: Expanding the information on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) at home and its associates is of great public health importance. The aim of the current analysis was to evaluate associates of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke ...
Dorota Kaleta, Piotr Wojtysiak, Bukola Usidame, Elżbieta Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Adam Fronczak, Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Assessment of Passive Smoking Based on Analysis of Hair Nicotine and Cotinine as Exposure Biomarkers by In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled On-Line to LC-MS/MS

Molecules, 2021
Passive smoking due to environmental tobacco smoke is a serious public health concern because it increases the risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Hiroyuki Kataoka, Sanae Kaji, Maki Moai
doaj   +1 more source