A Review on Smoking is Injurious to Health

Woods Injurious to Human Health. A Manual

The authors begin by reviewing in vitro studies of lymphocyte movement. They report the dramatic effects of changing culture conditions upon locomotion. Under favorable conditions, lymphocytes approach the top speeds of neutrophils and monocytes. The authors also review the available evidence of lymphocyte chemokinesis and chemotaxis. Then they turn their attention to the relevance of these in ...

is there a relationship between low health literacy and smoking?

aim: identification of contributory factors in smoking and gaining insight into the roles played by each of these factors including health literacy (hl) may account for quitting or decreasing the prevalence of smoking. the aim of the current study was to identify the effects caused by different hl levels on smoking.methods: 347 students inhabiting the dormitories of shahid beheshti university o...

Clean air is the key to clean lungs: Secondhand smoke is injurious to health

Both developed and less developed countries are becoming increasingly urbanized. The earlier industrialized countries have developed more infrastructure to support the building of healthy housing, in neighborhoods that are strongly linked to municipal and global health initiatives, but to some degree housing and neighborhood issues vary only in degree between the developing and developed worlds...

Effects of passive smoking on children's health: a review.

Since the mid-1980s there has been increasing interest in the effects of passive smoking on the health of children. It has been estimated that the total nicotine dose received by children whose parents smoke is equivalent to their actively smoking between 60 and 150 cigarettes per year. This review article considers the evidence for a relationship between passive smoking and disorders such as: ...

Childhood Trauma Linked to Adult Waterpipe Smoking: A Survey of Health-Science Students in Iran