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La cigarette et la grossesse
… de sexe comme autrefois, quant â l'usage de la cigarette. Elle doit décider si son enfant aussi va subir les effets de la cigarette. C'est sa décision â elle et personne ne peut décider pour elle. Mais elle doit décider non seulement pour sa santé à elle mais également et avant tout pour celle …
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An analysis of cigarette prices and affordability in Africa: evidence from African Cigarette Prices (ACP) Data
Cigarette affordability is defined as the amount of money or its time equivalent required to purchase cigarettes. It is one of the important determinants of tobacco consumption and is calculated from the interaction of consumer income and cigarette price. Governments of Low- and Middle-Income …
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Predictors of Adolescent E-cigarette Use
<p>E-cigarette use among adolescents in the U.S. has recently tripled. Studies suggest that e-cigarettes may be as addictive as conventional cigarettes, and that adolescents may be at particular risk for nicotine addiction, as well as for the neurological, developmental, and behavioral problems …
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Electronic Cigarette Education for Parents of Adolescents
… handout to increase knowledge of electronic cigarette health risks and improve intentions to discuss these risks with their adolescent. Background. In the United States, 4 million high school and 840,000 middle school students reported using electronic cigarettes in 2018. Numerous physical …
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Oligopolistic Competition and Cigarette Marketing, 1946-1965
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T17:53:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6901488.pdf: 9870412 bytes, checksum: f652951ca711a29800b403deb852cbf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Cigarette Smoking: Demographic Moderators
… dose-response relationship between ACE score and cigarette smoking, such that as ACE score increases, so does smoking behavior, but little is known about what factors moderate this relationship. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine demographic characteristics as potential moderators of …
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The Effects of Cigarette Smoking During Acute Alcohol Intoxication
… abuse, of alcohol is frequently accompanied by cigarette smoking. Between eighty and ninety-five percent of alcoholics also smoke cigarettes, a rate more than four times higher than in the general population. The mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood. A general class of …
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Factors Influencing College Seniors' Intentions To Quit Cigarette Smoking
<p>Although the adverse health effects of cigarette smoking are well known, many college students continue to initiate and maintain cigarette smoking. While some college students are making quit attempts, they have limited success. Past research has identified graduation as one life event around …
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Unravelling the relationship between cigarette smoking and language development
Cigarette smoking (CS) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Despite increasing knowledge regarding the health threats of CS, its global use remains a problem, even among pregnant women, with 8.1% of pregnant women smoking. In addition to maternal health, prenatal CS has been linked to …
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The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility
<p>The prevalence of e-cigarette use in young adults rose dramatically in the United States over the past decade. Nonetheless, our understanding of the motives that make young adults more susceptible to e-cigarette use remains limited. Risk factors associated with susceptibility to combustible …
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Body Dissatisfaction, Verbal Commentary, Social Influences and Cigarette Smoking
… and approximately 15% of adults smoke cigarettes. Body dissatisfaction can predict the development of an eating disorder, and smoking is linked with dozens of diseases, both of which can lead to premature death. The current study tested body dissatisfaction as a mediator of the …
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"Destructive but sweet": cigarette smoking among women 1890-1990
… over this period. The advent of the cigarette in the 1880s and its subsequent popularity in the decades following was crucial to this. From having been a recreational pastime, suited to certain times and occasions, in the nineteenth century, smoking permeated every aspect of public …
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Cigarette smoke and human pulmonary immune responses to mycobacteria
… to gain insights into the effects of exposure to cigarette smoke on human cells that form part of the innate immune system of host defence in the lung. The experiments on the pulmonary effects of cigarette smoke confirm that exposure has a significant effect upon innate host defences. Significant …
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Sibling Influence on Adolescent Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use
… between sibling drug use and adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. Research is conducted using survey data from a probability sample of 4,987 adolescents in grades 9–12 in Utah. To account for the limited frequency of drug use among respondents, Poisson regression is used to estimate …
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E-cigarette use in Kuwait: prevalence, knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as a smoking cessation aid or as a permanent replacement for smoking is increasing. The gateway theory states that e-cigarette use might lead to the use of combustible cigarettes by non-smokers, especially by adolescents. The aim of this PhD study was …
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The effect of food deprivation on cigarette smoking in females
… no differences were found in the total number of cigarettes smoked during the laboratory session. Analysis of smoking topography indicated that the time to first puff was significantly greater in the non-deprived condition (p = .03), while the sum of the interpuff intervals (p = .02) and the time …
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Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Neurocognitive Performance in Dementia Patients
… is crucial. Some studies suggests that cigarette smoking may increase the risk of developing dementia, but others suggest that smoking may have a neuroprotective effect. To clarify our understanding of the relationship between cigarette smoking and dementia, this study examined the …
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