In November 2020, I spoke with Alan Blum, MD, scholar, collector, curator, exhibitor, activist, and director of the University Alabama Center for Study Tobacco Society (CSTS). He has been creating tobacco-themed exhibitions since 1980s—in brick-and-mortar as well digital settings—based on a prodigious collection tobacco-related artifacts. Before joining CSTS, founder Doctors Ought to Care, nati...

the genetic diversity of 89 flue-cured tobacco varieties was examined using 12 issr primers. these cultivarswere evaluated at the guilan tobacco research center, rasht, iran, using a 7×7 simple lattice design with two replications, and 12 morphological traits. the total number of pcr amplified products was 143 bands ranging from 450 to 3000 bp, of which 108 bands (74.28%) were polymorphic. prim...

golestan province is one of the main tobacco growing regions in the country. tobacco streak virus (tsv) is a destructive pathogen on tobacco that has a wide host range and occurs worldwide. in order to serological detection of tsv at 13 region of golestan province, 500 infected samples belong to 8 families; chenopodiacae, amaranthaceae, fabaceae, solanaceae, malvaceae, poaceae, cucurbitaceae an...

Background: Smoking and other forms of tobacco use remain the most significant worldwide public health problem. The dental practice is being identified as potential location for smoking cessation activity. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) promotes the chances of tobacco cessation, however, evidence related to prescription of the NRT in dental settings is lacking. This study aimed to assess an...

Background: Tobacco use has toxic effects on different organs. This study was carried out to assess the effect of indigenous tobacco both in smoking (bidi) and smokeless (gutkha, zarda and khaini) forms on buccal cells at chromosomal level, through assessment of different nuclear anomalies as biomarker. Methods:This study was done on people living in Durgapur and its adjacent areas, West Bengal...

Background and Aims: Due to high mortality rate and cost of smoking, WHO has emphasized on the role of dentists in smoking cessation among patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate the dental students, knowledge toward health consequences of smoking, their attitude towards smoking cessation activities, and their education programs in this field. Materials and Methods: In this c...

background: cigarette smoking is the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in developed countries where at least one in four adults smoke cigarettes.healthcare providers who smoke are less likely to advise patients to quit smoking. the aim of this study is to find out the frequency of to acco smoking among medical professionals in tertiary care hospitals of karachi, and to...