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Systemic biomarkers of inflammation, oxidative stress and tissue injury and repair among waterpipe, cigarette and dual tobacco smokers
Background Waterpipe tobacco (WPT) smoking is associated with deleterious effects on cardio-pulmonary systems which may have adverse repercussions in pathophysiology and progression of chronic lung ...
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Conflict of interest and FCTC implementation in China
1 Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China 2 ...
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Educational and wealth inequalities in tobacco use among men and women in 54 low-income and middle-income countries
Background Socioeconomic differentials of tobacco smoking in high-income countries are well described. However, studies to support health policies and place monitoring systems to tackle socioeconomic ...
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Quantifying differences in teenage vaping across countries: the importance of comparing like with like
Substantial increases in vaping among young people in recent years is of great concern, and governments around the world have implemented a range of policies and programmes to discourage uptake of ...
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Independent companies in the tobacco supply chain: transparency and environmental social governance
Objective Previous research has identified that transnational tobacco companies lack transparency and that they hide their harms to health and nature behind environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...
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Effectiveness of tax and price policies in tobacco control
2 IARC Monographs, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France 3 Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France Correspondence to Maria E ...
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Construction of a ‘civilised smoking environment’: a novel strategy undermining tobacco control efforts in China
Objective In 2018, the Chinese tobacco industry initiated the nationwide ‘civilised smoking environment’ campaign via a 5-year action plan. The goal of this study was to analyse content of reports ...
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Decoding consumers' interpretations of ‘additive-free’ and ‘tobacco & water' cigarette advertising claims
Objectives In the USA, some tobacco companies replaced the marketing phrase ‘100% natural additive-free tobacco’ with ‘tobacco ingredients: tobacco & water’ (T&W) after receiving warnings from the US ...
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Upgrading your best chances: postdiagnosis smoking cessation boosts life expectancy of patients with cancer – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Tobacco use is linked to increased cancer risk, and people who smoke represent a large proportion of newly diagnosed patients with cancer. The fact that smoking cessation at the time of diagnosis can ...
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‘Ice’ flavoured e-cigarette use among young adults
Background ‘Ice’ e-cigarette flavours—marketed as a combination of fruity/sweet and cooling flavours (eg, ‘blueberry ice’ or ‘melon ice’)—recently entered the US market. The prevalence and correlates ...
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Close, but no cigar: certain cigars are pseudo-cigarettes designed to evade regulation
An abundance of evidence suggests that the tobacco industry's response to increased regulation imposed on cigarettes has been the development of little cigars and filtered cigars which are tobacco ...