نتایج جستجو برای: tobacco smoking
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Background & Objectives: Tobacco smoking is known to cause a huge burden of disease throughout the world: smoking is responsible for 4 million deaths per year. This study is performed in order to fill the existing gaps in information regarding current trends for lifestyle and tobacco-related disease in Iran.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study performed with the help of a questionnaire and...
OBJECTIVES To examine contextual and individual demographical predictors of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) in a tobacco-cultivating rural area of southwest China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 4070 consenting individuals aged 18 years or more was conducted in 2010. Information on demographical characteristics, tobacco smoking status and SHS exposure were obtained by a s...
INTRODUCTION China is the biggest tobacco producer and consumer in the world. Raising cigarette taxes and increasing tobacco retail prices have been prove as effective strategies to reduce tobacco consumption and the prevalence of smoking in western countries. But in China, it is uncertain how an increase of cigarette retail price will influence the tobacco consumption. METHODS From April to ...
background laryngeal cancer though accounts for only 1.5% of all malignant neoplasm. scientific evidence has shown that cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, lung and esophagus are associated with cigar smoking. the present study is to examine by case-control method the impact of smoking on laryngeal cancer. material and methods one hundred and six hospitalized cases of otolaryngology department ...
BACKGROUND Evidence is conflicting as to the whether tobacco smoking prevalence is higher in refugee than non-refugee populations. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence and frequency of tobacco smoking in Palestine refugee and non-refugee adolescent populations in the Middle East. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) conducted...
0860 B iotechnologies that aim to prevent smoking and tobacco-related disease may emerge as unintended by-products of research on the genetics of nicotine dependence and the effectiveness of nicotine vaccines for smoking cessation. For many advocates of tobacco control, any discussion of the genetics of smoking is anathema because of the tobacco industry's use of Fisher's [1] genetic hypothesis...
BACKGROUND Despite a declining prevalence in many countries, smoking rates remain consistently high among young adults. Targeting contextual influences on smoking, such as the availability of tobacco retailers, is one promising avenue of intervention. Most studies have focused on residential or school neighbourhoods, without accounting for other settings where individuals spend time, that is, t...
Tobacco smoking is a growing pandemic and in Malaysia, with the current smoking epidemic; the prevalence of smoking in Malaysia is high and tobacco related morbidity and mortality in Malaysia is equally high. The relative effectiveness of the tobacco control programmes implemented in Malaysia is measured by the prevalence of tobacco consumption among the public. Incidentally, as the prevalence ...
The prevalence of asthma in adolescents markedly varies between different localities as found by the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) and this may be due to environmental factors. Although tobacco smoke exposure is related to an increase in the prevalence of asthma, there is lack of information on that respect in children from developing countries, where active t...
BACKGROUND Marijuana contains carcinogens similar to tobacco smoke and has been suggested by relatively small studies to increase the risk of head and neck cancer (HNC). Because tobacco is a major risk factor for HNC, large studies with substantial numbers of never tobacco users could help to clarify whether marijuana smoking is independently associated with HNC risk. METHODS We pooled self-r...
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