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Campus Smoking Policies and Smoking-Related Twitter Posts Originating From California Public Universities: Retrospective Study

JMIR Formative Research, 2021
BackgroundThe number of colleges and universities with smoke- or tobacco-free campus policies has been increasing. The effects of campus smoking policies on overall sentiment, particularly among young adult populations, are more ...
Joshua S Yang, Raphael E Cuomo, Vidya Purushothaman, Matthew Nali, Neal Shah, Cortni Bardier, Nick Obradovich, Tim Mackey   +7 more
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Tobacco control law written by JTI: a case study of flagrant industry interference in Kyrgyzstan

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation In 2017, all but one of 116 parliamentarians voted to introduce amendments to weaken the tobacco control law in Kyrgyzstan, including mandating smoking areas and other measures contrary to the Framework ...
Katherine Shats, Chinara Bekbasarova, Joshua Abrams, Olga Knorre   +3 more
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Microalgae as a Natural CO2 Sequester: A Study on Effect of Tobacco Smoke on Two Microalgae Biochemical Responses

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022
Microalgae are known as the most efficient biological sequesters of carbon dioxide (CO2). Recently, they have been exploited to enhance air quality by decreasing CO2 levels and increasing oxygen (O2) concentrations.
Bahram Barati, Fatemeh Fazeli Zafar, Arman Amani Babadi, Arman Amani Babadi, Chen Hao, Lili Qian, Shuang Wang, Abd El-Fatah Abomohra, Abd El-Fatah Abomohra   +8 more
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A Bottom-up method Towards the Automatic and Objective Monitoring of Smoking Behavior In-the-wild using Wrist-mounted Inertial Sensors [PDF]

, 2021
The consumption of tobacco has reached global epidemic proportions and is characterized as the leading cause of death and illness. Among the different ways of consuming tobacco (e.g., smokeless, cigars), smoking cigarettes is the most widespread. In this paper, we present a two-step, bottom-up algorithm towards the automatic and objective monitoring of
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Diallyl trisulfide inhibited tobacco smoke-mediated bladder EMT and cancer stem cell marker expression via the NF-κB pathway

Journal of International Medical Research, 2021
Objective This study examined the effect of the NF-κB pathway on tobacco smoke-elicited bladder epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and cancer stem cell (CSC) marker expression in vivo .
Hao Geng, Wenhao Guo, Lei Feng, Dongdong Xie, Liangkuan Bi, Yi Wang, Tao Zhang, Zhaofeng Liang, Dexin Yu   +8 more
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Tobacco Smoke Induces and Alters Immune Responses in the Lung Triggering Inflammation, Allergy, Asthma and Other Lung Diseases: A Mechanistic Review

International 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, Aleksandra Ratajczak, Aleksander Adamiec, W. Feleszko   +3 more
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Risk of acute exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with biomass smoke compared with tobacco smoke

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background Risk of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associated with biomass smoke has not been well addressed, although biomass smoke is similar in composition to tobacco smoke.
Jaeyoung Cho, Chang-Hoon Lee, Seung-sik Hwang, Ki Uk Kim, Sang Haak Lee, Hye Yun Park, Seoung Ju Park, Kyung Hoon Min, Yeon-Mok Oh, Kwang Ha Yoo, Ki-Suck Jung, on behalf of the KOLD and KOCOSS Investigators   +11 more
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Indoor secondhand tobacco smoke and risk of under-five mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries: A population based study and meta-analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
BACKGROUND:Inhalation of secondhand smoke from tobacco results in serious health outcomes among under-five children, and yet, few studies have assessed its effect on under-five mortality.
Patrick Opiyo Owili, Miriam Adoyo Muga, Wen-Chi Pan, Hsien-Wen Kuo   +3 more
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Smoke-Free Ordinances and Policies Protect Youth, but Ordinances Appear to Have Little Impact on Non-Combustible Tobacco Use

Children, 2019
Smoke-free ordinances and policies protect youth from exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) and cigarette use. This study investigated whether smoke-free ordinances also protect youth from the use of other tobacco products. We compared the prevalence of SHS
Nell Valentine, Emily McClelland, Robert McMillen   +2 more
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Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions [PDF]

2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Barcelona, Spain, 2018, pp. 186-189, 2018
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States hundreds of thousands initiate smoking each year, and millions live with smoking-related dis- eases. Many tobacco users discuss their habits and preferences on social media.
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