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Pooling local public health budgets to achieve exceptional value for money: the case of the North East of England

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation The North East of England (pop 2.6m) has significant health challenges, largely resulting from an historic industrial past, and subsequent high rates of tobacco use.
Ailsa Rutter   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Debate on the decline in illicit tobacco trade in Bulgaria: A review of articles published in country media between 2010 and 2019

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
Background The Bulgarian government undertook a series of tobacco control measures and policies to tackle illicit trade in tobacco products, which led to a record decline in illegal cigarette sales.
Masha Gavrailova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Review of Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 2016
Background: Wildfire activity is predicted to increase in many parts of the world due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns from global climate change.
C. Reid   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Persistent Stratospheric Warming Due to 2019–2020 Australian Wildfire Smoke

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2021
Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the satellite era. A comparison of numerical simulations to satellite observations of the
P. Yu   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Member states of the FCTC can generate self-sustaining funding by applying the polluter-pay principle to the tobacco industry

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation Compared to the size of the problem and the public health work to be done, the FCTC remains woefully underfunded.
Neil Collishaw, Cynthia Callard
doaj   +1 more source

Tobacco Smoke Induces and Alters Immune Responses in the Lung Triggering Inflammation, Allergy, Asthma and Other Lung Diseases: A Mechanistic Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Many studies have been undertaken to reveal how tobacco smoke skews immune responses contributing to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases. Recently, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been linked with
Agnieszka Strzelak   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Individual aerosol particles from biomass burning in southern Africa: 2. Compositions and aging of inorganic particles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Individual aerosol particles collected over southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 field study were studied using transmission electron microscopy and field- emission scanning electron microscopy.
Buseck, Peter R.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Aversive smoking for smoking cessation [PDF]

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1997
Aversion therapy pairs the pleasurable stimulus of smoking a cigarette with some unpleasant stimulus. The objective is to extinguish the urge to smoke.This review has two aims. First, to determine the efficacy of rapid smoking and other aversive methods in helping smokers stop smoking.
P, Hajek, L F, Stead
openaire   +3 more sources

Passive smoking [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Cancer, 1982
Before 1980 the argument that passive smoking was a serious health hazard was rather tenuous. It was claimed that it produced allergic reactions, impaired driving ability, reduced exercise tolerance in patients with cardiorespiratory disease and increased the risk of bronchitis and pneumonia in first-year children.
openaire   +3 more sources

Standardized packaging and illicit tobacco use: A systematic review

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2017
Introduction To systematically review the evidence regarding the effect of standardized packaging on illicit tobacco use. Material and Methods Data sources were EMBASE, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycInfo, Medline, and the British Library catalogue, from
Catherine Haighton   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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