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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Tobacco smoking"”.
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Certain physiological effects of tobacco smoking
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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The selection, development, and objective evaluation of tobacco (smoking) concepts as an aid to curriculum construction
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University.
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An investigation into contemporary tobacco smoking behaviour in Nigeria: the impact of cultural transference on consumer behaviour and usage intentions.
Tobacco has continued to be a global threat, particularly in developing countries. While it appears that the demands for tobacco products have continued to fall in many developed countries, tobacco growing and consumption is posited to become increasingly concentrated in developing countries. …
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Waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : differences and similarities to cigarette smoking
… to socialise with less than 1% of smokers smoking alone. The majority of waterpipe smokers thought waterpipe use was less harmful, less addictive and more accessible than cigarette smoking. 96.1% [n= 465] of current users felt waterpipe was socially acceptable compared to only 69.9% [n= …
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The Physical Health of People with Co-occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
… SUD in their lifetime and 40%-80% are current tobacco smokers. Healthy lifestyle interventions can improve the health of people with SMI by offering a package of services aimed at improving physical activity, dietary habits, and engagement in health promoting activities, but little is known …
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Risk factors for oesophageal cancer in Uruguay
… the effect of diet, alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on oesophageal cancer risk was assessed.
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Investigation into the effects of the tobacco smoke procarcinogen benzo[a]pyrene on gene expression profiles in oesophageal cancer
Tobacco smoking is a major risk factor in the development of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is a tobacco smoke procarcinogen that is metabolically activated into the carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene diol-epoxide (BPDE) by the CYP1 family of cytochrome P450 enzymes. BaP …
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Pan-Cancer Genomic Characterization of Human Papillomavirus Associated Tumors
… as in HPV(+) or HPV(-) HNSCs with history of tobacco smoking. Episomal tumors displayed increased tobacco smoking rates, innate immunity pathway alterations, and higher viral load while tumors with integrated HPV genomes showed increased APOBEC cytidine deaminase mutagenesis, frequent viral …
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Tobacco carcinogen induced mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell lines as tools to identify novel lung cancer genes
… of established cancer risk factors such as tobacco smoking. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Carcinogen inflicted malignancies, including tobacco smoking derived lung adenocarcinoma, harbor thousands of mutations per genome. Over the last decades many new lung …
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Risk factors for tuberculosis in a low-income urban area of Cape Town, South Africa, with particular reference to the role of cannabis smoking
… between Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tobacco smoking has recently been highlighted. The reason for this association remains unclear, but is postulated to result from the effects of smoking on pulmonary host defences. Cannabis impairs the immune function of alveolar macrophages and has …
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Nudging' health behavioural change: behavioral economics, Tobacco control and innovative finance for Cancer control
Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death globally. Despite the existing traditional economic approaches like taxation, recent progress in tobacco control has plateaued compared to control efforts in nutrition, sexual reproductive health and alcohol. This discrepancy can be …
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Field: smoking cessation
The UK government white paper on tobacco "Smoking Kills" set targets to reduce rates of smoking among adults from 28% to 24%; by 2010. The success of behavioural smoking cessation programmes varies according to the type of intervention delivered (Viswesvaran & Schimidt, 1992). Group support …
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Factors associated with awareness of the law banning public smoking and reasons behind smoking in public in Kalingalinga township, Lusaka
The hazardous effects of tobacco smoking on health have been re-echoed world all over for over half a century now. Nearly, 80 % of the world’s tobacco-related deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Zambia, a middle income country and a signed party to the World Health Organization …
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Factors associated with awareness of the law banning public smoking and reasons behind smoking in public in Kalingalinga township, Lusaka
The hazardous effects of tobacco smoking on health have been re-echoed world all over for over half a century now. Nearly, 80 % of the world’s tobacco-related deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Zambia, a middle income country and a signed party to the World Health Organization …
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Cigarette smoke and human pulmonary immune responses to mycobacteria
… tuberculosis (TB) cases may be attributable to tobacco smoking. The aim of the studies reported here was 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 …
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and the early neurodevelopmental outcomes of children in a South African birth cohort study
… between PAE, including interactions of tobacco smoking exposure, and the neurodevelopmental trajectories (motor, language and cognitive outcomes) of children across the first 4 years of life (Chapter 5 Manuscript 3); 4. a comparison of the conversational turn-taking between mothers and …
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Genome-wide polygenic scores, executive function, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in youth
… ADHD and (low) educational attainment, but not tobacco smoking, were associated with increased ADHD in a non-clinical, independent sample of youth. A common executive function factor mediated the relationship between genetic risk associated with low educational attainment and ADHD. These results …
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Investigating the relationship between modifiable environmental risk factors and incidence of colorectal cancer: a community based study
… cancer. The dominant factors identified are tobacco/smoking, alcohol use, pesticides/organochlorines, and metal toxins. Following this study, it is imperative that recommendations are directed at a community level and relate to the assessment of potential non-nutritional modifiable …
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Effects of Norharmane and Nicotine on the Conditioned Place Preference of Mice
<p> Tobacco smoking in the United States is used by approximately 25% of adults. Many studies using animal models have suggested that nicotine has rewarding properties. Contrastingly, several studies have also found it to be a weakly reinforcing substance at low and high dose levels. Due to this, …
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More than the sum of parts: deconstructing tissues in their spatial, temporal, and environmental contexts
… disease to lifestyle exposures, I determined tobacco smoking increases TB risk via blood-to-lung migration of TB-permissive cells. 4) Intrigued by past stresses seeding future dysfunction, I studied similar themes in adaptations to high-fat diets, discovering tradeoffs where individual liver …
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