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Reducing nitrate and tobacco‐specific nitrosamine level in burley tobacco leaves through grafting on flue‐cured tobacco rootstock

Plant Direct, 2023
Nitrosation of pyridine alkaloids in tobacco generates tobacco‐specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), which are notable toxicants in tobacco products and smoke.
Yuqing Feng, Yuanyuan Zhao, Geng Li, Hongzhi Shi   +3 more
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Exploring electronic cigarette portrayals: a content and thematic analysis of African online news coverage

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2023
Background Electronic cigarette use has surged internationally in recent years, with numerous countries noting an uptick in users. Despite this, the portrayal of e-cigarette usage in African news remains unclear.
Chimwemwe Ngoma, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
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Does a human rights-based approach to harm reduction support commercialized harm reduction? Brief research

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
In recent years, the tobacco industry has been pushing a narrative that their newer lines of products—including electronic nicotine delivery devices—are offered in part to meet a social responsibility of providing potentially reduced-harm choices to ...
Neil Sircar, Mary E. Fleming, Stella A. Bialous   +2 more
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Reducing the nicotine content of tobacco by grafting with eggplant

BMC Plant Biology, 2020
Background Nicotine is a stimulant and potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid that accounts for 96–98% of alkaloid content. A reduction in the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to achieve a non-addictive level is necessary.
Mengjuan Ren, Mengyue Zhang, Huijuan Yang, Hongzhi Shi   +3 more
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The health impact of smokeless tobacco products: a systematic review

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Introduction The objective was to systematically review studies on health outcomes from smokeless tobacco (SLT) products. Methods We analysed published literature on the health outcomes from SLT use between 01/01/2015 to 01/02/2020, following Preferred ...
C. Hajat, E. Stein, L. Ramstrom, S. Shantikumar, R. Polosa   +4 more
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Tobacco Harm Reduction Approach in Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Study among Multi-Specialty Healthcare Professionals in an Indian Metropolitan City

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2022
Background:Tobacco harm reduction when advocated by care providers as continuum of care towards the goal of tobacco cessation might result in long-term abstinence than it is currently seen.
Sree T Sucharitha, Aravind Manoharan, Pradeep Rangasamy, Balaji SM, Hari M Krishnan, Jeevanandam Subramanian   +5 more
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Short and Long Term Repeatability of Saccharin Transit Time in Current, Former, and Never Smokers

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
Smoking progressively damages the efficiency of mucociliary clearance (MCC) defense mechanisms, thus contributing to increased susceptibility to respiratory infections.
Rosalia Emma, Rosalia Emma, Pasquale Caponnetto, Pasquale Caponnetto, Fabio Cibella, Massimo Caruso, Massimo Caruso, Massimo Caruso, Gianluca Conte, Francesca Benfatto, Salvatore Ferlito, Alessandro Gulino, Riccardo Polosa, Riccardo Polosa, Riccardo Polosa   +14 more
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Smoking in adolescence and harm reduction model as an alternative intervention

Mexican Journal of Medical Research ICSA, 2021
Introduction: Smoking is one of the main public health problems in the world, due to the fact that every year more than eight million people die from tobacco use. During adolescence, three out of five tobacco users generate an addiction.
Brenda Elizabeth Barraza
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Understanding experts’ conflicting perspectives on tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarettes: An interpretive policy analysis

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
The growing use of e-cigarettes has been condemned as a significant health crisis by some and welcomed as an unprecedented opportunity to eliminate combustible tobacco by others.
Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Benjamin Hawkins, Robert Schwartz   +2 more
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Implications of nicotine vaping products for tobacco control in ASEAN low-income and middle-income countries: in-depth interviews with experts from the region

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives The use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) has increased in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region; however, it is uncertain what implications the presence and use of NVPs ...
Victoria White, Thomas Stubbs, Hua-Hie Yong, John W Toumbourou   +3 more
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