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Secondhand Marijuana Smoke Is Not Benign [PDF]

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2016
Although most people know that secondhand tobacco smoke can be harmful,[1][1] the perception is that marijuana smoking is less harmful to health, less addictive, and more socially acceptable than tobacco use.[2][2] In fact, we have heard from parents here in Colorado that they have quit ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Prevalence and determinants of current and secondhand smoking in Greece: results from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) study

BMJ Open, 2017
Objectives Greece is one of the leading tobacco-producing countries in European Union, and every year over 19 000 Greeks die from tobacco-attributable diseases.
G. Rachiotis, A. Barbouni, Antonis Katsioulis, E. Antoniadou, K. Kostikas, K. Merakou, Kallirrhoe Kourea, Rula N. Khoury, A. Tsouros, J. Kremastinou, C. Hadjichristodoulou   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Public support for car smoking bans in Poland: a 2022 national cross-sectional survey

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of self-reported secondhand smoke exposure in cars among adults in Poland and to characterise public attitudes towards the implementation of the ban on smoking in cars with children ...
Mateusz Jankowski, Jarosław Pinkas, Aurelia Ostrowska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points For half a century, firearm‐related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID‐19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rate increase. By 2023, national trends masked a significant 10‐fold difference in firearm‐related death rates among states.
ESZTER RIMÁNYI, JONATHAN D. QUICK, STEPHEN W. HARGARTEN, CHARLES C. BRANAS, SANDRO GALEA, NASON MAANI, JONATHAN LOWY, ZAIN HUSSAIN, NICHOLAS HOFFMANN   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of smoking in the home on the health outcomes of non-smoker occupants in the UK

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2013
Smoking in the home remains a key source of exposure to secondhand smoke for non-smokers, particularly since the UK public smoking ban in 2007. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify all UK evidence on the impact of secondhand smoke ...
Jeanette Kusel, Beth Timm, Ian Lockhart
doaj   +1 more source

Fetal exposure to maternal active and secondhand smoking with offspring early-life growth in the Healthy Start study

International Journal of Obesity, 2018
BackgroundPrevious studies have modeled the association between fetal exposure to tobacco smoke and body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories, but not the timing of catch-up growth.
B. Moore, A. Starling, S. Magzamen, Curtis S. Harrod, W. Allshouse, J. Adgate, Brandy M Ringham, D. Glueck, D. Dabelea   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

The global burden of lower respiratory infections attributable to smoking and secondhand smoke, 1990–2021, with projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the GBD 2021 study

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background Using Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 data, we quantified the global, regional, and national burdens and trends of lower respiratory infections (LRIs) attributable to smoking and secondhand smoke exposure from 1990 to 2021.
Hu Xia, Xiaoxin Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Changing Epidemic of Lung Cancer & Tobacco and Situation of Tobacco Control 
in China

Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2017
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and morbidity in China. Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoking closely related to lung cancer. Recently, series policies of tobacco control and lung cancer prevention was carried out.
Xiaonong ZOU, Manman JIA, Xin WANG, Xiuyi ZHI   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of tobacco use, exposure to secondhand smoke and knowledge on smoking cessation among students of health professions in Central Greece: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke among students of health professions (SHPs) and determine possible risk factors for current smoking.
George Rachiotis, Antonis Katsioulis, Christos S Hadjichristodoulou, Athina A Samara, Sofia Pettemeridou, Konstantinos Papastamatiou, Konstantinos Tourlakopoulos, Eythimia Chelioti   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source