background : the objective of this study was to describe cigarette smoking prevalence among adults in lebanon and to evaluate the profile of light cigarette smokers compared to never and heavy smokers. methods : data were taken from a cross-sectional study carried out from october 2009 to september 2010, using a multistage cluster sampling all over lebanon. lebanese residents aged 40 years and ...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking and binge alcohol drinking are two of the leading risk factors for premature mortality worldwide. In India, studies have examined the geographic distributions of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking only at the state-level; sub-state variations and the spatial association between the two consumptions are poorly understood. METHODOLOGY We used data from the Special F...

background: substance abuse is one of the most complicated social problems. understanding socio-demographic characteristics of those who abuse substances could help deal with this problem more efficiently. the main objective of this study was to determine socio-demographic characteristics associated with alcohol drinking, cigarettes smoking and drug abuse among a sample of male medical universi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the modification effect of sex in the association between lifestyles and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). DESIGN Population-based case-control study. Trained interviewers collected information using a standard structured questionnaire. Associations were estimated using unconditional logistic regression. The effect modification by sex was evaluated in the regression mod...

At an individual level Helicobacter pylori was associated with the occurrence of gastric cancer but in some African and Asian countries its prevalence runs with low gastric cancer rates, the so-called African and Asian enigmas. We assessed whether the association between gastric cancer and H. pylori prevalence at an area level is modified by the level of exposure to fruits and vegetables, alcoh...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cigarette smoking and alcohol intake maintenance rate in patients treated for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and to compare the observed outcome with the type of oncological treatment employed. METHODS One hundred and ten patients treated for high aero-digestive tract squamous cell carcinoma were included and divided into a surgical group, treated with a surgery...

Chronic alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking adversely affect male reproductive health. This work highlights the influence of both on the sperm quality of infertile male partners. This prospective study was conducted on semen samples of alcoholics(Group1), smokers-(Group2), habit of both-(Group-3), controls-(Group4). Samples were analysed following WHO guidelines including the percentage o...