European Smoking Prevention Network Getting Set Up

SECONDHAND SMOKE: Parental Smoking May Set Up Children for Atherosclerosis

SEcOndhAnd SMOkE Parental Smoking May Set up children for Atherosclerosis Children frequently exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke may be at greater risk of developing athero sclerosis as adults, suggests new research published in the March 2010 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. “Passive smoking has been associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis in adults by a...

Response: Getting Tough with Smoking

Steven Shoptaw: We don’t know why, but the use of nicotine is associated with the use of other sub­ stances, whether you look retrospectively in a clini­ cal trial situation or prospectively in carefully defined groups. The association is always there and always very clear. My data show that among methadonemaintained patients who were trying to quit smok­ ing, they were more likely to use illic...

European Network For Smoking Prevention -ENSP Second-Hand Smoke (SHS) Markers Review of methods for monitoring exposure levels WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Laboratories Medical Bioinformatics set up at Medical Sciences University

Laboratories Medical Bioinformatics set up at Medical Sciences University

‘Getting it up’ with mobile virtual graffiti

Since the first appearance of modern man one trait of human behaviour appears to be an inherent desire to leave our mark on a particular object or space and controversial ‘SprayCan’ graffiti that appeared in the 1970s is but a modern extension of this phenomenon. The Mobspray project started out looking at the possibilities for allowing environmentally friendly location based virtual graffiti t...