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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the widespread presence of cigarette butts in the environment, the potential toxicological effects posed by microplastics (MPs) derived from them remain poorly understood. In this study, we compared the effects of MPs from conventional cigarette butts (cellulose acetate) and heated tobacco devices (cellulose acetate and polylactic acid
Andraž Dolar +9 more
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) [PDF]
Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Casey Warman +2 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground Perceived exposure to secondhand smoke has previously not been distinguished from actual exposure dose when considering the association with depression.
Dongkyu Lee +3 more
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Inflammatory Shift in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Amidst Guangzhou's Urbanization (2000–2018)
World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) exhibits temporal and geographic diversity in pathological endotypes with progressive eosinophilic infiltration, while the underlying causes remain unclear. Current pathological endotypes determination relies on mean cell count per high‐power field, requiring accuracy optimization.
Ning Kang +16 more
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The role of indoor air pollution and other factors in the incidence of pneumonia in under-five children [PDF]
, 2004 Background The World Health Organization has asked for a special attention to the relation between pneumonia and indoor air pollution, i.e., household biomass fuel smoke, cigarette smoke, and mosquito coil smoke, especially in developing countries ...
Surjono, Ahmad +7 more
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Mosses as biomonitor of air pollution with analytes originating from tobacco smoke
Chemia-Dydaktyka-Ekologia-Metrologia, 2018 The aim of the carried out research was the assessment of the possibility to use a popular bioindicator - Pleurozium schreberi mosses as a biosensor of the air pollution in living quarters with the analytes originating from tobacco smoke. The moss bag method of active biomonitoring, popular in environmental studies, was applied; the method is based on ...
Małgorzata Rajfur +3 more
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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
JONATHAN C. HELLER
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Mitochondrial toxicity of tobacco smoke and air pollution [PDF]
Toxicology, 2017 Jessica L, Fetterman +2 more
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines in the Tobacco and Mainstream Smoke of U.S. Commercial Cigarettes
, 2016 Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are N-nitroso-derivatives of pyridine-alkaloids (e.g., nicotine) present in tobacco and cigarette smoke. Two TSNAs, N′-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), are included ...
Liqin Zhang (583530) +6 more
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