Nicotine administration has been found to enhance performance on tasks of selective attention. It has been proposed that efficient attentional filtering depends on the successful inhibition of distracting information. In the work reported here, a negative priming paradigm was adopted to test whether smoking enhanced the inhibition of irrelevant information. Thirty-six minimally deprived smokers...

The sample consisted of 86 male patients between the ages of 16 and 65 years attending psychiatric clinic of L. L. R. Hospital, Kanpur. The patients selected randomly, were further subjected to detailed clinical history and a thorough psychiatric assessment. The social and demographic variables and the details of the smoking habits were recorded on a specially prepared proforma. Enquiries were ...

Smoking and withdrawal from smoking complicates the assessment and treatment of mental illness. We aimed to establish whether psychiatric inpatients smoke different amounts after admission than beforehand and, if so, to find out why. Forty-three inpatients on a working age adult psychiatry ward completed self-report questionnaires about smoking habits. Those who smoked a different amount after ...

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...

Abstract Smoked skipjack is very popular processed fish product in Ambon with a acceptable taste and flavor, so much pleasure to be consume. produced traditionally by the method of hot smoking process. Skipjack good production through year Maluku included Ambon, it ideal as raw material smoked production. As nutritional facts are appropriately identified. This study was purposed determine proxi...

The smoking of foods is one of the oldest methods of preservation. However, foods are nowadays smoked for sensory quality rather than for the preservative effect. Sensory characteristics are one of the important quality attributes that a consumer uses to judge the acceptability of a product. Colours of smoked cheese available in the market range from golden yellow to dark brown, and this array ...

DESCRIPTION Update of the 2005 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). METHODS The USPSTF commissioned a systematic review that assessed the evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for AAA and strategies for managing small (3.0 to 5.4 cm) screen-detected AAAs. POPULATION These recommendations apply to asymptomatic...

OBJECTIVE To compare the tobacco products use patterns of known diabetics and non diabetics. MATERIAL AND METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study using STEPwise approach among adults using a multistage, stratified, cluster random sample. Data was collected using a questionnaire which included sociodemographics; tobacco products use habits, history of diabetes, biochemical and anthropo...

Results are given of a case-control study on bladder cancer in West Yorkshire. The aim of the study was to assess what risks exist for cigarette smoking in the United Kingdom and also to investigate if a dose response effect was present. The study shows for the first time in the United Kingdom a positive but weak relationship between cigarette smoking and bladder cancer. Close examination of th...