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Factors related to eight respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms have been studied in a sample of 12 736 men and women aged 37 to 67 living in England, Scotland and Wales. The prevalence of each of these symptoms was independently associated with increasing age, with lower social class, with living in wales, and with exposure at work to fumes or to dust, especially in mines or quarries. Prevale...

SUMMARY The association of the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) with smoking habits was studied for 45 years in over 3,000 healthy, employed men, aged 39 to 59 years, at intake into a prospective, epidemiological investigation. The risk of CHD was significantly associated both with current and former cigarette usage. More specifically, this association was found to prevail in men suffe...

We study the localization of gravity on a string-like topological defect within a 6-dimensional space-time. Assuming zero cosmological constant we find complete numerical solutions to a set of first-order, Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommeferld (BPS)-like, equations for the metric and the scalar field, where the dynamics of the latter are dictated by a supergravity-type potential. Our axially symmetric ...

In a random sample of 25,129 Swedish men who responded to a questionnaire on smoking habits in 1963 the cause specific mortality was followed through 1979. In the cohort, 32% smoked cigarettes, 27% a pipe, and 5% cigars. There were clear covariations (p less than 0.001) between the amount of tobacco smoked and the risk of death due to cancer of the oral cavity and larynx, oesophagus, liver, pan...

OBJECTIVE The top 50 commercially successful films released per year from 1991 to 2000 were content coded to assess trends in tobacco use over time and attributes of films predictive of higher smoking rates. DESIGN This observational study used media content analysis methods to generate data about tobacco use depictions in films studied (n = 497). Films are the basic unit of analysis. Once fi...

A microscopic study was made to determine the relationship between various lung parenchymal changes, smoking habits and age. The subjects were 1,824 men and women for whom a macroscopic study of pulmonary emphysema has previously been reported. Lung parenchymal changes included rupture of alveolar septa (emphysema), fibrasis, and thickening of small arteries and arterioles. The mean degree of e...