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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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The beliefs of medical faculty students about thirdhand smoke

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction Thirdhand smoke is the toxic remnant, including pollutants and byproducts, of tobacco smoke that remains in the environment after the use of tobacco products.
İbrahim Güven Çoşğun, Şule Çilekar, Aydın Balcı, Beyza Nur Köymen, Sena Moral, Batıkan Nur, Berkay Yetim   +6 more
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"Efforts to Reprioritise the Agenda" in China: British American Tobacco's Efforts to Influence Public Policy on Secondhand Smoke in China. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Each year, 540 million Chinese are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS), resulting in more than 100,000 deaths. Smoke-free policies have been demonstrated to decrease overall cigarette consumption, encourage smokers to quit, and protect the ...
Gan, Quan, Hurt, Richard D, Muggli Monique E, Richard D Hurt, Lee Kelley, Hurt Richard D, Ebbert, Jon O, Kelley Lee, Gan Quan, Muggli, Monique E, Lee, Kelley, Quan Gan, Monique E Muggli, Jon O Ebbert, Ebbert Jon O   +14 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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Impact of Scottish smoke-free legislation on smoking quit attempts and prevalence [PDF]

, 2011
<p><b>Objectives:</b> In Scotland, legislation was implemented in March 2006 prohibiting smoking in all wholly or partially enclosed public spaces. We investigated the impact on attempts to quit smoking and smoking prevalence.</p>
Daniel F. Mackay, Mackay Daniel F., Haw, S., Pell, J.P., Pell, Jill, Mackay, D.F., Jill P Pell, Daniel F Mackay, Sally Haw, Pell Jill P., Mackay, Daniel F, Haw, Sally, Jill P. Pell, Haw Sally   +13 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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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 Twin Study of Early-Childhood Asthma in Puerto Ricans [PDF]

, 2013
Background:The relative contributions of genetics and environment to asthma in Hispanics or to asthma in children younger than 3 years are not well understood.Objective:To examine the relative contributions of genetics and environment to early-childhood ...
Canino Glorisa, Judy L. Silberg (430008), Gillespie, Nathan A., Lange, Nancy E, Lasky-Su, J, Nathan A Gillespie, Supinda Bunyavanich, Canino, G, Nancy E. Lange (430010), Silberg, JL, Juan C. Celedόn (430011), Lange Nancy E., Glorisa Canino, Glorisa Canino (151346), Bunyavanich, S, Celedόn Juan C., Celedόn, Juan C, Gillespie, NA, Gillespie, Nathan A, Gillespie Nathan A., Celedn, JC, Jessica Lasky-Su, Lasky-Su Jessica, Celedόn, Juan C., Nancy E Lange, Judy L Silberg, Bunyavanich, Supinda, Bunyavanich Supinda, Lange, Nancy E., Silberg, Judy L., Silberg, Judy L, Celedon, Juan C., Juan C Celedón, Nathan A. Gillespie (430009), Lange, NE, Lasky-Su, Jessica, Jessica Lasky-Su (273842), Supinda Bunyavanich (430007), Canino, Glorisa, Silberg Judy L.   +39 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
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Impact of Scotland's smoke-free legislation on pregnancy complications: retrospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2012
<b>Background:</b> Both active smoking and environmental tobacco smoke exposure are associated with pregnancy complications. In March 2006, Scotland implemented legislation prohibiting smoking in all wholly or partially enclosed public ...
Mackay Daniel F., Haw, S.J., Nelson Scott M., Pell, J.P., Pell, Jill, Mackay, D.F., Jill P Pell, Nelson, Scott M, Daniel F Mackay, Nelson, S.M., Pell Jill P., Mackay, Daniel F, Sally J Haw, Haw, Sally, Haw Sally J., Scott M Nelson   +15 more
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