A descriptive study of smoking, socioeconomic position, and health-related behaviors in urban Colombia by Valentina Guatibonza-García, Sofía Gnecco-González, Agustín Pérez-Londoño, Carolina Betancourt-Villamizar, Carlos O. Mendivil

“…Conclusion The worldwide trend towards a reduction in smoking seems to have been reversed in Colombia, smoking is increasing fast in disadvantaged population segments. Strong tobacco control policies should focus on men with less income and lower education. …”
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Seven-year longitudinal change in risk factors for non-communicable diseases in rural Kerala, India: The WHO STEPS approach. by Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Srinivasan Kannan, Sankara P Sarma, Oliver Razum, Odile Sauzet, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan

“…There were significant increases in weight (mean change +5.0 kg, 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.2 to 5.8), body mass index (mean change +1.8 kg/m2, 95% CI 1.5 to 2.1), waist circumference (mean change +3.9 cm, 95% CI 3.0 to 4.8), waist-to-height ratio (mean change +0.022, 95% CI 0.016 to 0.027), current smokeless tobacco use (men: odds ratio [OR] 1.6, 95% CI 1.1 to 2.2), alcohol use (men: OR 2.6, 95% CI 1.9 to 3.5; women: OR 4.8, 95% CI 1.8 to 12.6), physical inactivity (OR 2.0, 95% CI 1.3 to 3.0), obesity (OR 2.2, 95% CI 1.7 to 2.8), and central obesity (OR 1.9, 95% CI 1.5 to 2.3). …”
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Educative Intervention for parents or Tutors of asthmatic children by Eneida Bravo Polanco, Beatríz Pérez García, Narciso Águila Rodríguez, Dalia Rosa Ruiz Roja, Yoanka Torres López, Mayelín Martínez Santana

“…Precipitating factors for crisis mostly identified were tobacco smoke, respiratory infections, climate changes and the least known emotional experiences. …”
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Perception of Toxic Habits in Adolescents in Educational Units of the Ambato Canton by Carlos Alejandro Troya Altamirano, Eduardo Leonel Alvarado Pico, Andrea Gabriela Suárez López

“…There is a need to continue providing knowledge and delve into the effects and risks of alcohol, tobacco and drug consumption and the need to adopt healthy lifestyle habits. …”
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a Debut Form of Groove Pancreatitis: A Diagnostic Challenge by Belén Matías-García, Camilo José Castellón-Pavón, Gustavo Díaz-García, Belén Manso-Abajo, Daniel Hernández-Aceituno, Antonio Hermosín-Peña, Luis Mejías-Sosa, Manuel Durán-Poveda

“…A 53-year-old man with a personal history of alcohol and tobacco abuse and chronic pancreatitis was admitted to the hospital for epigastric abdominal pain. …”
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Mental health for the indigenous population in Chhattisgarh, India: Navigating challenges and crafting solutions by Monika Thakur, Namrata Bhardwaj, Hari Hara Suchandra, R Arun Kumar, K Pushpa, Nisha R. Harshitha, Suhas Satish, Sumi Jain, Radhakrishnan Govindan, Narayana Manjunatha, Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar, Suresh Bada Math

“…Among the tribal population, the study unveiled elevated rates of tobacco and alcohol use, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, and substance use disorders. …”
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Prevalence of alcohol and drug consumption and knowledge of drug/alcohol-related sexual assaults among Italian adolescents by Antonio Villa, Alessia Fazio, Anna Esposito

“…Introduction: Alcohol is the most widely used substance among adolescents, exceeding the use of tobacco and illicit drugs. The study aims at investigating the prevalence of alcohol and drug use and prevalence and knowledge of Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA) among Italian adolescents. …”
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Behavioral Disorder amongst Adolescents Attending Secondary School in Southeast Nigeria by J. M. Chinawa, P. C. Manyike, H. A. Obu, O. I. Odetunde, E. C. Aniwada, I. K. Ndu, A. T. Chinawa

“…Adolescents who reported to have used tobacco 3 to 5 and 6 to 9 times during the last 30 days are just 3.14% and 3.4%, respectively. …”
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Oriented R-CNN With Disentangled Representations for Product Packaging Detection by Jiangyi Pan, Jianjun Yang, Yinhao Liu, Yijie Lv

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Inhibition of GSK3β is synthetic lethal with FHIT loss in lung cancer by blocking homologous recombination repair by Shishi Tao, Yue Pu, Eun Ju Yang, Guowen Ren, Changxiang Shi, Li-Jie Chen, Liang Chen, Joong Sup Shim

“…Abstract FHIT is a fragile site tumor suppressor that is primarily inactivated upon tobacco smoking. FHIT loss is frequently observed in lung cancer, making it an important biomarker for the development of targeted therapy for lung cancer. …”
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Post-translational modifications as a key mechanism for herpes simplex virus type I evasion of host innate immunity by Yongxing Zhang, Junlei Xie, Ying Feng, Abdul Qadeer, Shanni Li, Xu Deng, Lipeng Zhu, Bo Kong, Zanxian Xia, Zanxian Xia

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Sociodemographic and behavioral factors associated with diet quality among low-income community health center patients with hypertension. by Jessica Cheng, Katherine C Faulkner, Ashlie Malone, Kristine D Gu, Anne N Thorndike

“…The most important factors associated with lower HEI-2020 scores were: not having own housing, male gender, tobacco use, marijuana use, and skipping meals; the most important factors associated with higher HEI-2020 scores were Hispanic ethnicity and receipt of community food resources (5-fold cross-validated R2 = 0.17).…”
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High prevalence and co-occurrence of modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases among university students: a cross-sectional study by Ipek Cicekli, Ipek Cicekli, Serap Gokce Eskin, Serap Gokce Eskin

“…Lifestyle risk variables for NCDs included physical inactivity, low fruit and vegetable consumption, alcohol use, tobacco smoking, being overweight/obese, and sugar sweetened beverages consumption.ResultsOur results showed that the most frequent risk factor was insufficient physical activity (89.2%), followed by low vegetable (70.5%) and fruit consumption (58.9%). …”
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Long-Term Effects of Maternal Smoking on Quality of Life. Results from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959–61 by SØren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…It seems that exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy has a small but significant effect on the quality of life in later adult life. …”
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Visualization of Observational Learning and Peer Influence on Plastic Waste Diversity in the Campus Environment Using ArcGIS by Nüket Sivri, Atilla Aydoğdu, Vildan Zülal Sönmez, Ceyhun Akarsu

“…As the most important finding of this study; It has been observed that the dominant polymer structures in all points are plastic packaged products consumed by students due to their proximity to classrooms/offices/markets/canteens, cigarette butts due to their tobacco use habits, and wet wipes due to their fast hygiene habits. …”
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Cultural & region-specific adaptation of KAP (Knowledge, attitude, and practice) tool to capture healthy lifestyle within primary care settings. by Ahmed Sameer Alnuaimi, Muslim Abbas Syed, Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel, Hafiz Ahmed Mohamed, Mohamed Iheb Bougmiza, Mohamed Ahmed Syed

“…<h4>Background</h4>Non-communicable diseases contribute to a significant global burden of disease and are associated with modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption. These risk factors are closely related with lifestyles and eating patterns which are often culturally embedded and managed differently in various health care settings.…”
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Lifestyle and Dietary Factors Associated with the Evolution of Cardiometabolic Risk over Four Years in West-African Adults: The Benin Study by Charles Sossa, Hélène Delisle, Victoire Agueh, Roger Sodjinou, Gervais Ntandou, Michel Makoutodé

“…Lifestyle included physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use. Education and income (proxy) were the socioeconomic variables. …”
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Oral Health Status of the Elderly at Tonga, West Region, Cameroon by Yotat Michele Lolita, Agbor Ashu Michael, Ntumba Hubert, Djachechi Florence, Bolenge Jacques

“…Risk factors to dental caries were toothbrushing and tobacco consumption while dental plaque was associated to pocket depth of 4–6 mm. …”
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Early screening of lung function by electrical impedance tomography in people with normal spirometry reveals unrecognized pathological features by Shuoyao Qu, Enzhi Feng, Daihan Dong, Lin Yang, Meng Dai, Inéz Frerichs, Shaojie Liu, Yi Gao, Jinping Zheng, Liqiang Song, Zhanqi Zhao

“…A follow-up CT examination was suggested for participants with abnormal regional time constant or tobacco consumption ≥10 pack-years. Using CT as reference, the sensitivity and specificity of electrical impedance tomography-based screening were 81.3% and 50.0%, respectively in the concept establishment phase. …”
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MEDICAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN INFERTILE WOMEN ACCORDING TO THE REGISTRY OF INFERTILITY COUPLES IN THE TRANSBAIKAL REGION by Татьяна Евгеньевна Белокриницкая, Наталия Ивановна Фролова, Дмитрий Владимирович Малько

“…Infertile patients are characterized by a long period (6 years) of examination and conservative treatment of infertility, have a complex of external negative factors (systematic medication, alcohol, tobacco smoking, exposure to toxic substances). Compliance with time parameters and volumes during examination and conservative treatment of infertility, elimination of adverse external influences can improve the result of treatment.…”
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