Gambling in Connecticut adolescents: Prevalence, socio-demographic characteristics, trauma exposure, suicidality, and other risk behaviors. by Elina A Stefanovics, Zu Wei Zhai, Marc N Potenza

“…Gambling was further associated with suicidality and risk behaviors including substance use, smoking [traditional tobacco and electronic vapor use], risky use of digital technologies, unsafe sex, and aggressive behaviors. …”
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Novel selective adsorption cooling materials for heating cigarettes by Chaojian Li, Xiaojuan You, Hongmei He, Huaibin Shi, Xin Gao, Wei Tang

“…Heated cigarettes are becoming trendy due to their advantage of not burning the tobacco material and thus reducing the amount of harmful ingredients released, while being able to leave the nicotine and tar content of the smoke untouched. …”
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Principal Covariates Regression for Causal Case Studies by Weibin Ding, Jie Li, Dian Jin, Jiayang Kong

“…We find that California’s tobacco control program had a significant negative and robust effect on local beer consumption, suggesting that policymakers could reduce the use of cigarette and alcohol in the public using one common behavioral intervention.…”
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STRESS AND ANXIETY IN ROMANIAN COVID-19 PATIENTS: THE ROLE OF ALCOHOL, SMOKING, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC by Ioana Silistraru, Radu Petru Soroceanu, Radu Gheorghe Grigore, Mihaela Moscalu, Anisia-Iuliana Alexa, Ioan-Adrian Ciureanu

“…While focusing on identifying the main anxiety and stress predictors, data were gathered based on demographic criteria, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and anxiety scores measured with Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) among two groups of inpatients: both with positive and negative COVID-19 tests. …”
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Enterprise chart question and answer method based on multi modal cross fusion by Xinxin Wang, Liang Chen, Changhong Liu, Jinyu Liu

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Risk Factors for Tuberculosis by Padmanesan Narasimhan, James Wood, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Dilip Mathai

“…Along with well-established risk factors (such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malnutrition, and young age), emerging variables such as diabetes, indoor air pollution, alcohol, use of immunosuppressive drugs, and tobacco smoke play a significant role at both the individual and population level. …”
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Role of Nasal Endoscopy in Chronic Osteomyelitis of Maxilla and Zygoma: A Case Report by J. S. Arunkumar, Ashok S. Naik, K. C. Prasad, S. G. Santhosh

“…Factors like viral fevers, malnutrition, malaria, anemia,tobacco chewing, immunodeficiency, osteopetrosis, Paget’s disease of bone, and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) result in decreased vascularity of the affected bone, predisposing to the development of osteomyelitis. …”
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Serological estimation of values for urea, uric acid, and creatinine as a prognostic marker in oral submucous fibrosis patients: An institutional clinic-biochemical study by Vishal Mehrotra, Kriti Garg, Rahul Srivastava, Shazia Aslam, Jyoti Kiran, Vinayak Rai

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 150 patients were selected for the study and further categorized into Category I – included those subjects having OSMF, Category II – those subjects who had the habit of chewing betel nuts but had no features of OSMF, and Category III - comprised healthy controls with no habit history of chewing betel nut/tobacco. All variables from this study were analyzed by applying the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and Chi-square test. …”
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Adsorption Removal of Imidacloprid Insecticide in Agriculture Industry Using MoO3 Nanorod by Razieh Razavi, Zeinab Nazari, Moslem Basij

“…Nicotine is naturally found in many plants, including tobacco, and is toxic to insects. Imidacloprid is used to control sucking insects, termites, some soil insects, and fleas on pets. …”
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Perioperative infarction during coronary bypass surgery: an attempt to refine the diagnostic criteria using data from a retrospective case–control study by Lars Niclauss, Liam-Kani Roulet, Piergiorgio Tozzi, Filip Dulguerov, Ziyad Gunga, Anna Nowacka, Matthias Kirsch

“…The risk factors were a family history of cardiovascular disease (odds ratio (OR) 2.8), tobacco abuse (OR 3.8), recent MI (OR 3.6), and triple-vessel disease (OR 2.8). …”
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Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on One-Dimensional Deep Residual Shrinkage Network with a Wide Convolution Layer by Jingli Yang, Tianyu Gao, Shouda Jiang, Shijie Li, Qing Tang

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Persistent Hiccups as the Only Presenting Symptom of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Nasreen Shaikh, Rishi Raj, Srinivas Movva, Charles Mattina

“…Our patient was a 74-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and COPD due to chronic tobacco use, who presented with persistent hiccups for 4 days and no other complaints. …”
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Encapsulation of Menthol in Beeswax by a Supercritical Fluid Technique by Linjing Zhu, Hongqiao Lan, Bingjing He, Wei Hong, Jun Li

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Prevalence and Correlates of Truancy among School-Going Adolescents in Mozambique: Evidence from the 2015 Global School-Based Health Survey by Abdul-Aziz Seidu

“…It was found that adolescents aged 15 years and older [OR=1.460,95% CI=1.153,1.848], experiencing hunger [OR=1.613 95% CI= 1.051,2.475], current tobacco use [OR=1.613 95%CI=1.051,2.475], being bullied [OR=1.314, 95% CI=1.027,1.681], facing an attack, smoking [OR= 1.893, 95% CI=1.293,2.771], having 1-2 close friends [OR=1.656, 95% CI=1.276,2.14], and feeling lonely [OR=1.295, 95% CI=1.019,1.646] were the factors that predisposed adolescents to truant behaviour. …”
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Towards a conceptual framework for the prevention of gambling-related harms: Findings from a scoping review. by Jamie Wheaton, Ben Ford, Agnes Nairn, Sharon Collard

“…However, there is little research exploring how a public health approach to gambling-related harms can learn from similar approaches to other potentially harmful but legal sectors such as the alcohol sector, the tobacco sector, and the high in fat, salt and sugar product sector. …”
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Mesurer l’impact du travail sur la santé : du longitudinal, oui, mais lequel ? by Thomas Coutrot, Loup Wolff

“…This would be compared to more rigorous models, that will include a history of some former professional exposures (retrospective static models), or will study the incidence (instead of the prevalence) of the disorders according to either the exposure from the initial date (longitudinal standard models), or the evolution of the exposure (dynamic models).We first show the weakness of the impact of the individual factors of confusion such as the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, living conditions or medical history. However, the correlations between health and employment characteristics highlighted by the naive models remain practically unmodified in the more thorough models. …”
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Genome Stability Pathways in Head and Neck Cancers by Glenn Jenkins, Kenneth J. O'Byrne, Benedict Panizza, Derek J. Richard

“…Variable functionality of an increasing spectrum of repair gene polymorphisms is associated with increased cancer risk, while aetiological factors such as human papillomavirus, tobacco and alcohol induce significantly different behaviour in induced malignancy, underpinned by differences in genomic stability. …”
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Epidemiological and Genome-Wide Association Study of Gastritis or Gastric Ulcer in Korean Populations by Sumin Oh, Sejong Oh

“…This disease is known to have various reasons, including infection with Helicobacter pylori, dietary habits, tobacco, and alcohol. The incidence rate of gastritis has reported to differ between age, population, and gender. …”
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Exploring The Self-Awareness Of Dental Students And House Surgeons Regarding Oral Cancer: A Qualitative Study On Control And Prevention Strategies by Gulmina Saeed Orakzai, Mariya Farooq, Misbah Ali, Syeda Munazza Gillani, Jayyad Salim Awal, Raif Ilyas

“…Results: All participants concurred on the severity of oral cancer as a major public health issue in Pakistan and many of them considered tobacco as a major risk factor. Risk factors, control and preventive strategies were summed up under major themes identified as alarming health issues, lifestyle and culture-related risk factors, issues in the dental curriculum and challenges in clinical set-up hampering thorough examination of oral cancer and related risk factors education. …”
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Risky behaviours and injuries amongst Catalan children with ADHD: does pharmacological treatment improve outcomes? by Toni Mora, Rowena Jacobs, Jordi Cid, David Roche

“…We test whether medication use for ADHD decreases the likelihood of risky behaviour (sexual behaviour, alcohol, tobacco, and drug consumption) and injuries amongst children aged 6–18. …”
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