PURPOSE To investigate the associations between tobacco smoking and various forms of cataracts among the people of a state in India. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional epidemiologic study was conducted in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). A total of 10,293 subjects of all ages from one urban and three rural areas, representative of the population of AP, were interviewed, ...

the greater amount of carbonic oxide by maintaining a longer layer of the cigar redhot. It is of interest to compare the proportions of carbonic oxide in straight coal gas, made by simply distillinag coal, witlh that in tobacco smoke. A cigar of average size was smoked under such conditions that the volume of smoke formed could be measurod.Four. fifths only ot' the cigar was smoked in order to ...

In the report, "Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2011-2016," an error occurred in the Table. The prevalence estimate for cigar smoking among high school males should read "9.9 (8.6-11.2)."

Abstract Background Cigars and cigarettes are both smoked, but much less is known about the former’s long-term health effects, due to its low prevalence infrequent collection of cigar information in national surveys. Purpose We conducted a follow-up mortality study cigar-smoking men age 40–79 years National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS). Methods used pooled NHIS files linked Death Index obtai...

Five ex-cigarette smokers and five primary pipe and cigar smokers each smoked a large cigar. Carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) and plasma nicotine levels were measured. In the ex-cigarette smokers mean COHb rose from 2.9% to 9.6% and plasma nicotine from 79.0 nmol/l to 281 nmol/l (12.8-45.6 ng/ml). This response was similar to that of cigarette smokers smoking cigarettes, which indicated that the subje...

BACKGROUND While increasing cigarette taxes has been a major policy driver to decrease smoking, taxes on other tobacco products have received less attention. Our aims were to evaluate the impact of chewing tobacco/cigar taxes, cigarette taxes, and smoke-free legislation on adolescent male and female use of smokeless tobacco and cigars. METHODS We analyzed data on 499,381 adolescents age 14-18...

Cigarette smoking is an important and well-established cause of pancreatic cancer. In contrast, little is known about the effects of smoking cigars, pipes, and use of smokeless tobacco on pancreatic cancer risk. The objective of the present study was to examine the association between noncigarette tobacco use (i.e., cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco) and pancreatic cancer risk among nonsmokers o...

Abstract Background Polytobacco product use is increasingly popular, but little known about the prevalence, trend, and factors of such particularly in non-western countries. Method A representative sample 1139 current cigarette smokers aged 15+ (84.1% male) were telephone interviewed Tobacco Control Policy-related Surveys 2015–2017. Information collected included poly-tobacco (PTU), smoking soc...