BACKGROUND South Africa adopted comprehensive tobacco control policies in the 1990s. Smoking has since declined in the general population, but there is little information on the effect of the campaign in labour-intensive industries, especially the mining industry where workers are exposed to dust, which may interact with tobacco smoke to cause respiratory disease. OBJECTIVES To determine the ...

background: there are few articles studding the factors associated with successful smoking cessation in iranian smokers. the aim of this study is to clarify the association between socio‑demographic factors and smoking behavior, such as number of failed smoking cessation and duration of abstinence in iranian population. methods: a self‑administered questionnaire survey of 673 participants was c...

CMAJ 2016. DOI:10.1503 /cmaj.151421 Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths and the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Canadians — an estimated 26 600 Canadians were diagnosed and 20 900 died from lung cancer in 2015.1 In Canada, the incidence of lung cancer is currently higher in men than in women (although this gap is beginning to narrow), and more than 85% of cases ar...

BACKGROUND A change in pattern of tobacco use has been observed in the last decade in Norway. Snuff use and occasional smoking have to some degree replaced daily smoking among adolescents and young adults. Daily smoking is known to be negatively associated with social background factors, but little is known about these associations for other types of tobacco use. Our aim was to study different ...

Two hundred and seventy one original published materials related to tobacco use were found in a search through a database dedicated to indexing all original data relevant to Medicine and Health in Malaysia from 1996 - 2015. A total of 147 papers were selected and reviewed on the basis of their relevance and implications for future research. Findings were summarised, categorised and presented ac...

AIMS To examine whether child and adolescent psychopathology predicts subsequent tobacco use at 14 and 21 years of age. DESIGN Prospective birth cohort study. SETTING Data are taken from the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy and its outcomes (MUSP), a prospective longitudinal study which recruited women at their first antenatal visit in Brisbane, A...

many factors affect tobacco quit rate. in this study we investigated the abstinence rate after 5 years based on the age of smoking initiation. this pre-post field trial study was conducted on 398 smokers who participated voluntarily in a smoking cessation clinic in 2005. they were followed for 5 years and their success or failure in continuous abstinence was evaluated and recorded in 2010. thre...

background: smoking has physical, psychological, and social impacts on women’s health and subsequently the community’s health. therefore, it is important to have an estimation of smoking among iranian women. since comprehensive data are not available in this respect, the authors performed a systematic review and metaanalyzed all high-quality studies in this field.   methods: all available elect...