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Towards a smoke-free world? South America became the first 100% smoke-free subregion in the Americas
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Almost 20 years after the launching by the Pan American Health Organization of its “Smoke-Free Americas” initiative in 2001, in December 2020, South America became the first subregion in the Americas to accomplish 100% smoke-free environments in line ...
Gianella Severini +7 more
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The Effect of Education on Smoking Decisions in the United States [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This paper explores the link between education and the decision to start smoking as well as the decision to quit smoking. Data is gathered from IPUMS CPS and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Probit analysis (with the use of probability weight and robust standard error) indicates that every additional year of education will reduce the 2.3 ...
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SmokEng: Towards Fine-grained Classification of Tobacco-related Social Media Text [PDF]
, 2019 Contemporary datasets on tobacco consumption focus on one of two topics, either public health mentions and disease surveillance, or sentiment analysis on topical tobacco products and services. However, two primary considerations are not accounted for, the language of the demographic affected and a combination of the topics mentioned above in a fine ...
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Environmental effect on health: Air pollution and smoke
Environmental Disease, 2016 This review has discussed various topics related to environmental health. The major findings highlighted are air pollution, children and adult vulnerability, cytokines related to interleukin-33, thymic stromal lymphopoietin, tobacco smoke related to ...
Marianne Frieri +2 more
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Estimating dynamic treatment regimes for ordinal outcomes with household interference: Application in household smoking cessation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The focus of precision medicine is on decision support, often in the form of dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs), which are sequences of decision rules. At each decision point, the decision rules determine the next treatment according to the patient's baseline characteristics, the information on treatments and responses accrued by that point, and the ...
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Siekgebou-indroom - 'n krietiese oorsig
Clean Air Journal, 1991 Worldwide, indoor air pollution is causing great concern. Because is often the only visible air pollutant, tobacco smoke is invariably singled out as the culprit. However, detailed research has found that it plays an insignificant role and that the blame
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Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 2020 Aims/Introduction The aim of the current study was to prospectively evaluate the association between passive smoking from a spouse and the risk of diabetes among never‐smoking Japanese women.
Shino Oba +6 more
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2020 INTRODUCTION Toxic tobacco smoke residue, also known as thirdhand smoke (THS), can persist in indoor environments long after tobacco has been smoked.
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Ambient Particulate Air Pollution, Environmental Tobacco Smoking, and Childhood Asthma: Interactions and Biological Mechanisms [PDF]
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2011 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 24% of the global burden of disease is caused by environmental factors that can be averted (1). Understanding the role of the environment in asthma is a natural ambition in the overall search to understand environmental burdens: In an individual expressing the asthmatic phenotype, worsening of asthma ...
A. Baccarelli, J. D. Kaufman
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2020 Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a common indoor pollutant in multiunit housing (MUH). It is also the precursor of thirdhand smoke (THS), the toxic mixture of tobacco smoke residue that accumulates in indoor environments where tobacco has been used.
Georg E. Matt +11 more
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