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Challenges To Quit Smoking Among Smokers In Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2018 Cigarette smoking is the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in developed countries. The prevalence of smoking is increasing in Malaysia.
A, I. A. (Izzuddin) +5 more
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Market regulation and firm performance: the case of smoking bans in the UK [PDF]
, 2009 This paper analyzes the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers. It presents a theoretical model and tests its predictions using unique data from before and after the introduction of smoking bans in the UK. Cigarette smoke
Adda, J. +3 more
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Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Cardiovascular Disease.
Circulation Journal, 2019 Tobacco smoking continues to be a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the leading avoidable cause of death worldwide. Tobacco smoking has declined in high-income countries, but the average smoking rate in Japan remains high: 29.4% for ...
T. Kondo +3 more
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arXiv, 2018 Inspired by the recent success of fully convolutional networks (FCN) in semantic segmentation, we propose a deep smoke segmentation network to infer high quality segmentation masks from blurry smoke images. To overcome large variations in texture, color and shape of smoke appearance, we divide the proposed network into a coarse path and a fine path ...
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Characterization of Industrial Smoke Plumes from Remote Sensing Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The major driver of global warming has been identified as the anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial activities. The quantitative monitoring of these emissions is mandatory to fully understand their effect on the Earth's climate and to enforce emission regulations on a large scale.
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Predicting smokers' non-compliance with smoking restrictions in public places [PDF]
, 2009 Objective: The present study aimed to identify the predictors of non-compliance with smoking restrictions among Greek college student smokers. Differences in attitudes to smoking bans and tobacco control policies between current smokers and non-smokers ...
Eiser, J.R., Lazuras, L., Rodafinos, A.
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016 BACKGROUND Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are electronic devices that heat a liquid into an aerosol for inhalation. The liquid usually comprises propylene glycol and glycerol, with or without nicotine and flavours, and stored in disposable or refillable ...
J. Hartmann-Boyce +5 more
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation In India, Sweetened Suparis (Arecanut Granules, spices) and Gutkhas (Arecanut Granules, Tobacco, spicy compounds) - packed in small pouches - are freely marketed- which causes Oral Cancer.
REGUNATHAN Venkatachalam Pillai
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Predicting Smoking Events with a Time-Varying Semi-Parametric Hawkes Process Model [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Health risks from cigarette smoking -- the leading cause of preventable death in the United States -- can be substantially reduced by quitting. Although most smokers are motivated to quit, the majority of quit attempts fail. A number of studies have explored the role of self-reported symptoms, physiologic measurements, and environmental context on ...
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Childhood IQ and social factors on smoking behaviour, lung function and smoking-related outcomes in adulthood: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies [PDF]
, 2005 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of childhood IQ and adult social factors, and smoking behaviour, lung function (forced expiratory volume in one second; FEV(1)), and smoking-related outcomes in adulthood.
Deary, I.J. +7 more
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