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Tobacco Use Patterns [PDF]

Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2012
The use of combustible tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe, bidis, kreteks, and hookah) among adults remains widespread around the world. Unless dramatic progress is made diminishing the initiation and increasing cessation of combustible tobacco product use, a billion preventable deaths will occur in the 21st century [1]. These deaths will
McAfee, Timothy A., Kruger, Judy
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Genetics of Tobacco Use [PDF]

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2004
The worldwide prevalence of tobacco use is widespread, resulting in nearly 4.5 million deaths every year. Nicotine is addictive and has psychopharmacological effects that maintain the use of tobacco products. Several studies have documented a strong hereditary component to tobacco use.
Maserejian, Nancy Nairi, Zavras, Athanasios I.   +1 more
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Tobacco Use Disorders [PDF]

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016
Tobacco use is a pervasive public health problem and the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States. This article reviews the epidemiology of tobacco use in youth, with a description of cigarettes, alternative tobacco product, and polytobacco use patterns among the general population and among adolescents with psychiatric
Deepa R, Camenga, Jonathan D, Klein
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Tobacco packaging design for reducing tobacco use [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017
Tobacco use is the largest single preventable cause of death and disease worldwide. Standardised tobacco packaging is an intervention intended to reduce the promotional appeal of packs and can be defined as packaging with a uniform colour (and in some cases shape and size) with no logos or branding, apart from health warnings and other government ...
McNeill, Ann, Gravely, Shannon, Hitchman, Sara C, Bauld, Linda, Hammond, David, Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie   +5 more
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Online Tobacco Marketing and Subsequent Tobacco Use [PDF]

Pediatrics, 2018
BACKGROUND:Nearly 2.9 million US adolescents engaged with online tobacco marketing in 2013 to 2014. We assess whether engagement is a risk factor for tobacco use initiation, increased frequency of use, progression to poly-product use, and cessation.METHODS:We analyzed data from 11 996 adolescents sampled in the nationally representative, longitudinal ...
Samir, Soneji, JaeWon, Yang, Kristin E, Knutzen, Meghan Bridgid, Moran, Andy S L, Tan, James, Sargent, Kelvin, Choi   +6 more
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Using the judicial system to fight tobacco: Perspectives from the Global South

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction Recent litigation cases such as the Brazilian lawsuit against the largest tobacco corporations seeking the recovery of healthcare costs related to the treatment of tobacco-related diseases1 demonstrate that the use of the judicial system ...
Daniel Dorado, Isabel Barbosa, Davi Bressler, Gianella Severini   +3 more
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Tobacco use pattern and quitting behaviour among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a pan India online survey

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021
Background: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) have a definite role in tobacco control and can help immensely by setting examples. The current study aimed to study the tobacco use pattern and quitting behaviour among HCPs of India during the COVID-19 ...
Bijaya Nanda Naik, Bijit Biswas, Chandramani Singh, Sanjay Pandey, Santosh Kumar Nirala, Neha Chaudhary   +5 more
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Widely targeted metabolomics reveals the physiological and metabolic mechanisms of browning in tobacco leaves induced by starvation stress

Frontiers in Plant Science
Browning widely occurs during the processing of crops and their products, reducing both quality and economic value. However, the mechanisms underlying postharvest leaf browning under starvation-dominated conditions remain unclear. Here, compared with the
Zeyu Zhao, Zeyu Zhao, Xueyan Jing, Guanhui Li, Guanhui Li, Qi Xu, Benbo Xu, Kesu Wei, Liping Chen, Bin Wei, Jiati Tang, Yuhang Zhao, Lingli Xie, Jianbing Qin, Shengjiang Wu, Shengjiang Wu   +15 more
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Participant experiences with a text message and contingency management intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy and lactation in Cape Town, South Africa

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background The Western Cape region of South Africa has one of the highest global rates of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), underscoring the urgent need for effective interventions. This qualitative study, designed as a process evaluation, explores
Lesley-Ann Erasmus-Claassen, Noluthando Mpisane, Petal Petersen Williams, Felicia A. Browne, Bronwyn Myers, Wendee M. Wechsberg, Charles D. H. Parry, Shantae N. Taylor, Yukiko Washio   +8 more
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Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
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