Tobacco use is dramatically increasing among youth. Growing attention has been addressed towards possible predictors of smoking in such a population. We evaluated a sample of Italian adolescents to verify whether adults and peers might influence their smoking status. Cross-sectional study was conducted in 16 schools of North Italy. Data were collected from 2001 to 2010 by means of a self-admini...

The authors organized a Natural Language Processing (NLP) challenge on automatically determining the smoking status of patients from information found in their discharge records. This challenge was issued as a part of the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside) project, to survey, facilitate, and examine studies in medical language understanding for clinical narratives. This a...

A direct relationship between the extent of atherosclerotic lesions and smoking habits and age was found in a study of 1,412 aortas collected at autopsy from male patients from 1965 to 1970. The extent of the lesions was recorded using grading systems for formation of plaques, ulceration, and calcification. These findings increased with the number of cigarettes smoked and were greater in ex-cig...

Tobacco use is the single leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Approximately 80% of tobacco use occurs for the first time among youth aged <18 years, and the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents increased during the early 1990s. To determine prevalence rates of cigarette, smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco or snuff), and cigar use for U.S. high school students, ...

I knew there was something a little old-fashioned about my psychoanalytic training institute when I saw a note in the catalog mentioning that smoking was permitted in the building -Smoking? In New York? In the workplace? -but only in the director's office. Ah, of course. I immediately thought of Freud and his famous cigars. The director is a small, elderly gentleman with a white beard and a hea...

It has been mentioned before that the method in this experiment was to have the four subjects practice the tests until they ceased to improve and then to have them smoke in order to observe the results. These smoking tests were held the evening of Friday or Saturday of each week for four weeks. Each subject usually took all of the tests at 4.30 p. m. and immediately afterward smoked a cigar. As...

Objective: To examine time trends in the portrayal of smoking in a national collection of portraiture and to compare this with the similar trends for television and film. Methods: A compact disc produced by the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, was systematically searched for artworks produced in the years 1950 to 1999. A ‘‘smoking portrayal’’ in an artwork was defined as having a cigare...

BACKGROUND: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from April 2020 data collection for Smoking and Alcohol Toolkit Study (STS/ATS) shifted a face-to-face telephone survey. In March 2022 parallel survey was conducted alongside explore whether change in affected key sociodemographic, smoking alcohol use indicators. METHODS: Cross-sectional representative surveys (one one face-to-face) of adults aged 16+ G...