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Parental risk perceptions of child exposure to tobacco smoke [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoke exposure harms children and adults. Yet, 40% of children worldwide are exposed to tobacco smoke in their homes. Such widespread parental failure to protect children is puzzling, and may be related to risk perceptions.
Inessa Kostjukovsky, Laura Rosen
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Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic

open access: yesHarm 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
doaj   +1 more source

Qualitative characteristics of thin-cut smoking tobacco and the chemical composition of the smoke of products made from it

open access: yesНовые технологии, 2022
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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Habit or addiction: the critical tension in deciding who should enforce hospital smoke-free policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Transcriptomic and barrier responses of human airway epithelial cells exposed to cannabis smoke

open access: yesPhysiological 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
doaj   +1 more source

Microbiological components in mainstream and sidestream cigarette smoke

open access: yesTobacco 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
doaj   +1 more source

Early exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and the development of allergic diseases in 4 year old children in Malmö, Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background Earlier studies have shown an association between secondhand tobacco smoke and allergy development in children. Furthermore, there is an increased risk of developing an allergy if the parents have an allergy.
Elisabeth Mangrio   +3 more
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Low-cost, immediate, general-purpose, and high-throughput (LIGHt) smartphone colorimetric screening assay for water-soluble protein

open access: yesHeliyon
An 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence And Predictors of Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke Among Never-Tobacco Smokers

open access: yesNational 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
doaj   +1 more source

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