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Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2021 Introduction Alcohol and tobacco are often used together. Studies have shown that some biological factors contribute to the concurrent use of alcohol and nicotine.
Raymond K. S. Ho +2 more
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Social class and smoking at age 15: the effect of different definitions of smoking [PDF]
, 2001 Aim : To explore whether the association between social class and smoking among teenagers varies according to the definition of smoking adopted. Design, setting and participants : A survey of 2196 15-year-olds in 43 secondary schools in the West of ...
Sweeting, H., West, P.
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Aversive smoking for smoking cessation [PDF]
Cochrane 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
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Association between high school students’ cigarette smoking, asthma and related beliefs: a population-based study [PDF]
, 2016 Background Smoking has a detrimental effect on the symptoms and severity of asthma, a common chronic disease among adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between asthma and smoking among high school students and assess ...
Jones, Resa M. +2 more
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British 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.
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The effect of brief counselling and NRT sampling on the recruitment of smokers to quit smoking
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2019 Introduction The smoking population has declined to 10.8% in Hong Kong in 2017 thematic household survey. The passive recruitment measures to motivated smokers to join smoking cessation service exclusively results in a significant missed opportunity to ...
Kin Sang Ho +7 more
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Tobacco control in the United States: Failure to protect the right to health
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020 1. Tobacco is often viewed as a problem that has been solved, particularly in the United States. However, tobacco kills more than 0.48 million Americans per year 1 . About 1 in 5 deaths in the United States is due to tobacco. 2.
Action on Smoking and Health
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Asian Journal of Surgery, 2009 Surgical smoke is the gaseous by-product formed during surgical procedures. Most surgeons, operating theatre staff and administrators are unaware of its potential health risks. Surgical smoke is produced by various surgical instruments including those used in electrocautery, lasers, ultrasonic scalpels, high speed drills, burrs and saws.
Fan, JKM, Chu, KM, Chan, FSY
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Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2017 A large number of COPD patients are smokers. The particular characteristics of this group as well as their need to quit usually require psychological counselling and pharmacological treatment to achieve abstinence and, often, intensively.
Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruiz +12 more
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Impact of changing US cigarette smoking patterns on incident cancer: Risks of 20 smoking-related cancers among the women and men of the NIH-AARP cohort [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Historically, US women started smoking at a later age than men and had lower relative risks for smoking-related cancers. However, more recent birth cohorts of women and men have similar smoking histories and have now reached the high-risk age
Abnet, Christian C +9 more
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