Prevalence and social determinants of smoking among men in Mauritius: a cross-sectional study by Miguel San Sebastián, Tuomilehto Jaakko, Stefan Söderberg, Paul Zimmet, Bhushan Ori, Jaysing Heecharan, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Sudhirsen Kowlessur

“…Regular monitoring focuses on the prevalence of tobacco use, yet there is a gap in understanding its socio-economic patterns. …”
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Diagnosis dan Penatalaksanaan Tumor Ganas Laring by Dolly Irfandy, Sukri Rahman

“…<br />Keywords:  Laryngeal cancer, carcinoma, laryngectomy, tobacco<br /><br />…”
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Demographic Characteristics Associated With Adolescent Receipt of Provider E-Cigarette Screening and Advice and the Impact on Harm Perception by John S. Acosta-Peñaloza, MS, Karen W. Geletko, MPH, Jon Mills, PhD

“…Introduction: The growing prevalence of E-cigarette use among adolescents is alarming because it increases the probability of persistent tobacco use and addiction to nicotine. Healthcare providers are in a unique position to influence their patients’ use of E-cigarettes. …”
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Assist-linked brief intervention to reduce risky pattern of substance use in male workers employed at a tertiary care hospital in India: A randomized controlled trial by Sambhu Prasad, Debasish Basu, Surendra K. Mattoo, B. N Subodh

“…Results: The prevalence of moderate-to-high-risk use of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis in the total sample was 28.6%, 27.5%, and 6.9%, respectively. …”
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Sex differences in prevalence and determinants of hypertension among adults: a cross-sectional survey of one rural village in Bangladesh by Jessica Yasmine Islam, M Mostafa Zaman, Jasim Uddin Ahmed, Sohel Reza Choudhury, Hasanuzzaman Khan, Tashfin Zissan

“…Determinants of hypertension included older age, higher education, current tobacco use, increasing body mass index, and hyperglycaemia.Conclusion Our research suggests that hypertension prevalence is higher among women than men in rural Bangladesh. …”
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Operative Versus Nonoperative Management of Pyogenic Flexor Tenosynovitis: An Analysis of the National Readmissions Database by Justin D. Sawyer, MD, Justin Davis, MD, Steven Scaife, MS, Michael W. Neumeister, MD, Timothy H.F. Daugherty, MD

“…Readmission is more likely in patients with more medical comorbidities, tobacco users, and lower socioeconomic status. Type of study/level of evidence: Prognosis IIC.…”
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The use of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans in the investigation of the adverse effects of electronic cigarettes by Kamila Melnikov, Alžbeta Kaiglová, Soňa Kucharíková

“…The use of tobacco products is one of the most preventable risk factors for mortality from a variety of diseases, including cardiovascular, infectious, respiratory, and neoplastic conditions. …”
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Investigating Oral Cancer Awareness Among Medical and Dental Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in the South Canara Region of India by Shubham Agarwal, Nidhi Manaktala, Srikant Natarajan, Karen Boaz

“…Habits like smoking and tobacco chewing are among the most common causes of oral cancer. …”
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Analysis of Nutritional Quality of Black Fungus Cultivated with Corn Stalks by Hongwei Yao, Yang Liu, Zheng Feei Ma, Hongxia Zhang, Tingting Fu, Zunqiang Li, Yuanjing Li, Wei Hu, Shuchang Han, Fengchen Zhao, Hongjun Wu, Xueyi Zhang

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Transgenic plants as genetic models for studying functions of plant genes by A. V. Kochetov, V. K. Shumny

“…Investigation of transgenic plants revealed that high ribonuclease activity in apoplast correlated with increased resistance against tobacco mosaic virus. Thus, S-like RNases may have a new function as a part of the plant basal antiviral defense mechanism. …”
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Emerging practices supporting diabetes self-management among food insecure adults and families: A scoping review. by Enza Gucciardi, Adalia Yang, Katharine Cohen-Olivenstein, Brittany Parmentier, Jessica Wegener, Vanita Pais

“…<h4>Results</h4>Emerging practices identified through this review include screening for food insecurity as a first step, followed by tailoring nutrition counseling, preventing hypoglycemia through managing medications, referring patients to professional and community resources, building supportive care provider-patient relationships, developing constructive coping strategies, and decreasing tobacco smoking.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Emerging practices identified in our review include screening for food insecurity, nutrition counselling, tailoring management plans through medication adjustments, referring to local resources, improving care provider-patient relationship, promoting healthy coping strategies, and decreasing tobacco use. …”
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Modulation of High-Frequency rTMS on Reward Circuitry in Individuals with Nicotine Dependence: A Preliminary fMRI Study by Tao Wang, Ruiyang Li, Dongyan Chen, Mei Xie, Zhiqiang Li, Huan Mao, Yuting Ling, Xiaoyun Liang, Guojun Xu, Jianjun Zhang

“…We found that, after the treatment, individuals showed reduced nicotine dependence, alleviated tobacco withdrawal symptoms, and diminished smoking cravings. …”
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Risk-factor Model Derivation and Validation for the Detection of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders among General Population of Towns in Pune District, Maharashtra, India by Khushboo Thakkar, Sahana Hegde Shetiya, Dipti Agarwal, Sudhir L. Jadhav

“…Introduction: India is one among the high burden countries for smokeless tobacco use. Hence, cancer burden is large, among which cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx are important public health problems. …”
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Asthma is not Enough: Continuation of Smoking Among Parents with an Asthmatic Child by Joel J Liem, Anita L Kozyrskyj, Cecilia M Benoit, Allan B Becker

“…BACKGROUND: Ideally, on diagnosis of asthma in a child, parents are counselled to decrease environmental tobacco smoke exposure to their children.…”
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Process Practice for the Self-lubricating Bush of C2082H-RP Maintenance-free Feeder Machine Chain by Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yi

“…The analysis shows,this kind of iglidur bearing self- lubricating bush has the properties of low noise,oil- free operation,long life span and maintenance- free,can meet the demand of hygiene standard for the feeder machine chain in tobacco industry.…”
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Second-Hand Smoke Increases Bronchial Hyperreactivity and Eosinophilia in a Murine Model of Allergic Aspergillosis by Brian W. P. Seymour, Edward S. Schelegle, Kent E. Pinkerton, Kathleen E. Friebertshauser, Janice L. Peake, Viswanath P. Kurup, Robert L. Coffman, Laurel J. Gershwin

“…Involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke has been shown to aggravate the allergic response. …”
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Evaluation of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) as a biocontrol agent of Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) based on two-sex life table and functional response... by Zhen Shen, Li-Hui Liu, Lian-Sheng Zang, Tie-Jun Deng, Zhen-Bao Luo, Jun-Yi Gao, Liang-De Tang

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Associations between physical activity, sedentary behavior, and health risk behaviors among adolescents from a city in Southern Brazil by Michael Pereira da Silva, Fabio Eduardo Fontana, Gregory J. Welk, Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Edmar Roberto Fantineli, Eliane Denise Araújo Bacil, Wagner de Campos

“…The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) questionnaire evaluated fruit, vegetable, alcohol, and tobacco consumption. Binary Logistic regression measured the independent and combined associations of PA and SB with risk behaviors. …”
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Genome variability of domestic tomato varieties: data from AFLP analysis by A. V. Kulakova, E. A. Dyachenko, A. V. Shchennikova, O. N. Pyshnaya, E. A. Dzhos

“…In accessions of distant clades, there was clustering on the basis of resistance to Verticillium, cladosporiosis, Fusarium, tobacco mosaic virus, gray rot, and blossom end rot. …”
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Active versus sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as an adjunct to varenicline treatment for smoking cessation: Study protocol for a double-blind single dummy rando... by Laurie Zawertailo, Helena Zhang, Noreen Rahmani, Tarek K Rajji, Peter Selby

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>For every two smokers who quit, one life is saved from a tobacco-related mortality. Therefore, it is important to develop new and more effective treatment approaches that can improve and maintain long-term abstinence, in order to decrease the prevalence of tobacco-related deaths and disease. …”
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