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Smoking is the leading preventable disease worldwide and passive smoking is estimated to be the cause of about 1.0% of worldwide mortality. The determination of tobacco smoke biomarkers in human biological matrices is key to assess the health effects ...
Sònia Torres+4 more
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Pulmonary toxicity of chronic exposure to tobacco and biomass smoke in rats
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the separate and combined effects of tobacco and biomass smoke exposure on pulmonary histopathology in rats.
Omer Tamer Dogan+5 more
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New 2-(2,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)benzimidazolines
New 2-(2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)benzimidazolines are synthesized in an easily accessible approach. The method is based on the reaction of resorcinol with in situ-formed electrophilic N-ethoxycarbonylbenzimidazolium reagents.
Yordan Stremski+3 more
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A multimodal deep learning architecture for smoking detection with a small data approach [PDF]
Introduction: Covert tobacco advertisements often raise regulatory measures. This paper presents that artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, has great potential for detecting hidden advertising and allows unbiased, reproducible, and fair quantification of tobacco-related media content.
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Thin-cut smoking tobacco is gaining more and more popularity among consumers of tobacco products. However, this type of product remains poorly understood, including the chemical composition of its smoke.
E. Yu. Smirnova, E. V. Gnuchikh
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Introduction The association between cigarette smoking and schizophrenia is well established. However, up to 90% of people with schizophrenia begin smoking before the onset of their illness, thus smoking could be an independent risk factor for ...
A. Hunter+3 more
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Smoke-free hospitals in Poland – a cross-sectional survey
Introduction In 2010, the government of Poland passed an amended smoke-free law that strengthened existing tobacco control policies and banned smoking in hospitals.
Jarosław J. Fedorowski+4 more
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Tobacco smoke exposure is an independent predictor of vitamin D deficiency in US children. [PDF]
IMPORTANCE:The role of tobacco-smoke exposure on serum vitamin D concentration in US pediatric population is not known. We hypothesized that tobacco smoke exposure would increase the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in US children.
Benjamin Udoka Nwosu, Philip Kum-Nji
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The influence of societal individualism on a century of tobacco use: modelling the prevalence of smoking [PDF]
Smoking of tobacco is predicted to cause approximately six million deaths worldwide in 2014. Responding effectively to this epidemic requires a thorough understanding of how smoking behaviour is transmitted and modified. Here, we present a new mathematical model of the social dynamics that cause cigarette smoking to spread in a population.
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Meconium samples used to assess infant exposure to the components of ETS during pregnancy
Objectives: The aim of the study was to use meconium samples to assess fetal exposure to compounds present in environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Material and Methods: In order to assess fetal exposure to toxic tobacco smoke compounds, samples of meconium
Sylwia Narkowicz+3 more
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