BACKGROUND Little cigar and cigarillo use is becoming more prevalent in the United States and elsewhere, with implications for public health. As little cigar and cigarillo use grows in popularity, big social media data (eg, Instagram, Google Web Search, Twitter) can be used to capture and document the context in which individuals use, and are marketed, these tobacco products. Big social media d...

Cigars were one form of Native American tobacco use observed by Columbus and early European settlers. A long, thick bundle of twisted tobacco leaves wrapped in a dried palm or maize leaf was used by Native Americans as a primitive cigar. Smoking of cigars is recorded on artifacts of the Mayas of the Yucatan region of Mexico, and the Mayan verb “sikar,” meaning to smoke, became the Spanish noun ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION Considerable evidence exists that little cigars are popular among African American adolescents and young adults who smoke. However, few studies have been published on the use of this tobacco product by young blacks in the United States. This research investigated little-cigar use among students at a historically black university in the southeastern United States. METHODS As a fol...

effective factors on smoking based on basnef model in male students in tehran medical sciences university in 2009 zareipour ma1, sadeghi r*2, sadeghi tabatabaei sa3, seyedi s4 received: 25 nov, 2010 accepted: 25 dec, 2010 abstract background & aims: smoking as a health risk behavior endangers not only the individual but also community health and is one of the preventable causes of death. this r...

BACKGROUND Although there has been concern about the levels of carbon monoxide exposure, particularly among older people, little is known about COHb levels and their determinants in the general population. We examined these issues in a study of older British men. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 4252 men aged 60-79 years selected from one socially representative general practice in each of 24...

The effect of cigar and pipe smoking on the risk of myocardial infarction was evaluated in an interview study of 572 men with non-fatal first myocardial infarctions and 934 hospital controls. The study was conducted in the north eastern United States from 1980 to 1983. All subjects were 40-54 years of age, and none had smoked cigarettes for at least two years. Among men who had never smoked cig...