Habit or addiction: the critical tension in deciding who should enforce hospital smoke-free policies [PDF]
, 2011 Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death. Most recently, the US Surgeon General has affirmed that there is no safe level of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
Lawn, Sharon Joy
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Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic
Harm Reduction Journal, 2005 More people are using the cannabis plant as modern basic and clinical science reaffirms and extends its medicinal uses. Concomitantly, concern and opposition to smoked medicine has occurred, in part due to the known carcinogenic consequences of smoking ...
Melamede Robert
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Transcriptomic and barrier responses of human airway epithelial cells exposed to cannabis smoke
Physiological Reports, 2019 Globally, many jurisdictions are legalizing or decriminalizing cannabis, creating a potential public health issue that would benefit from experimental evidence to inform policy, government regulations, and user practices.
Jennifer A. Aguiar +6 more
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Prevalence And Predictors of Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke Among Never-Tobacco Smokers
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Background: Exposure to Second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) harms health. It is a risk factor for various diseases like asthma, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and lung cancer. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of second-hand
Deepak Sharma, Naveen Krishan Goel
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Oxidative stress is reduced in Wistar rats exposed to smoke from tobacco and treated with specific broad-band pulse electromagnetic fields [PDF]
, 2009 There have been a number of attempts to reduce the oxidative radical burden of tobacco. A recently patented technology, pulse electromagnetic technology, has been shown to induce differential action of treated tobacco products versus untreated products ...
Bajić B. +4 more
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Microbiological components in mainstream and sidestream cigarette smoke
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2012 Background Research has shown that tobacco smoke contains substances of microbiological origin such as ergosterol (a fungal membrane lipid) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria).
Lennart Larsson +3 more
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Effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home : cross sectional survey [PDF]
, 2003 Objective To examine parents' reported knowledge and use of harm reduction strategies to protect their infants from exposure to tobacco smoke in the home, and the relation between reported use of strategies and urinary cotinine to creatinine ratios ...
Blackburn, Clare +5 more
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HeliyonAn efficient and rapid method for the detection of total soluble protein in tobacco leaves, utilizing a smartphone-based colorimetric approach has been developed.
Yunfei Sha +7 more
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Exposure of Human Lung Cells to Tobacco Smoke Condensate Inhibits the Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Exposure to tobacco smoke is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. Although the DNA damaging properties of tobacco smoke have been well documented, relatively few studies have examined its effect on DNA repair pathways.
Nathaniel Holcomb +6 more
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Quercetin Hybrids—Synthesis, Spectral Characterization and Radical Scavenging Potential
Molbank, 2022 New quercetin-based derivatives are synthesized in an easily accessible one-pot manner. The method is based on the reaction of quercetin with in situ formed electrophilic N-alkoxycarbonylazolium ions.
Desislava Kirkova +3 more
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