OBJECTIVES Japan has a relatively high prevalence of smoking in men. Despite the importance of behavioral patterns on successful smoking cessation, only limited information is available in Japan. The present study collected data from former smokers in a rural community in Japan in order to identify health status at the time of cessation, predominant motivating factors, and the role of smoking c...

In a recent issue of the Journal (1), Perneger criticizes us (2), as well as a number of other authors, for stating that case–control study results dealing with relative risks of cancer also apply to absolute risks of cancer. The studies in question concerned male–female differences in risks of lung and bladder cancer according to cigarette smoking history. Our results did indeed show that fema...

Background: Facing infertility put too much emotional stress and physical burden on infertile couples that make it difficult to deal with. According to this fact that infertility in some men appears with specified disorder but in most cases there is no clear cause for male infertility which determine the special attention to lifestyle and environmental factors. In this study the effects of smok...

In Zambia, circumcision is traditionally practiced on a large scale only in North-Western Province, an area with one of the lowest HIV rates in Zambia. Few ethnic groups in Zambia conduct male circumcision as a part of religious and cultural practices. The Luvale and Lunda of Northwestern Province practice traditional universal male circumcision, though there are small groups who also practice ...

Background: Tobacco use is a major cause of preventable death and disease in India. A nationally representative case-control study of smoking in India (2008) revealed that only 2% of smokers had spontaneously quit. This study was undertaken to assess tobacco quit rates among the youth in an urban health center and to determine barriers in quitting tobacco use. Methods: This cross sectional stud...

Malay is described as an alphabetic language with salient syllabic structures. In our attempt to develop a reading intervention program for early Malay struggling readers, word analysis of Malay children’s stories was conducted. Additionally, in order to have a better understanding of Malay word structures, a cross-linguistic comparison with English was attempted. The results indicate significa...

We elicit measures of individual discount rates from a representative sample of the Danish population and test two substantive hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that smokers have higher individual discount rates than non-smokers. The second hypothesis is that smokers are more likely to have time inconsistent preferences than non-smokers, where time inconsistency is indicated by a hyperbolic d...

introduction and objective nowadays, one of the vital and essential concepts in the world is the health concept. from the psychology point of view, mental health is including the individual abilities to enjoy of life and find a balance between life activities and effort to achieve of the psychological flexibility. the purpose of this study was the comparison between mental health of smokers and...

Abstract The development of digital technology has led to transformations in our everyday lives and, as a result, produced new practices and spatialities. Young people at the heart these display unique forms religiosity that are somewhat different from their parents’ generation. This chapter examines young Malay Muslim Bruneians’ lived religiosities context engagements on social media. They que...