men who never smoked. A total of 7,316 deaths occurred among regular cigarette smokers, an excess of 2,665 over the 4,651 that would have occurred had the age-specific death rates for smokers been equal to that for nonsmokers. Coronary disease accounted for 52.1% of the excess; lung cancer accounted for 13.5% and cancer of other sites likewise for 13.5% An extremely high association between cig...

background: global adult tobacco survey (gats), malaysia 2011 reported that the prevalence of smoking was highest among malays male i.e., 24.6% (ci:22.1,27.3). the aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of a group of smokers towards various national anti-smoking initiatives as well as its association with age and education level. methods: the study was conducted in a randomly selected...

This study considers the extent to which daily consumption of cigarettes in young adults varies by age at first cigarette and duration of smoking. Data come from a random sample of 21- to 30-year-old members of a large HMO in the Detroit area. Daily cigarette consumption by current smokers varied by duration of daily smoking: the longer the duration, the higher the number of cigarettes smoked. ...

BACKGROUND Nonattendance for scheduled appointments disturbs the effective management of pediatric pulmonary clinics. We hypothesized that the reasons for non-attendance and the necessary solutions might be different in pediatric pulmonary medicine than in other pediatric fields. We therefore investigated the factors associated with nonattendance this field in order to devise a corrective strat...

An analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey for Kilimanjaro, Tanzania was carried out to assess sex differences in the prevalence rates and predictors of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents. A total of 2323 adolescents participated in the study of whom 53% were females and 47% males. The prevalence of current cigarette smoking was 3.0% and 1.4% among males and females, resp...

BACKGROUND One third of Bahraini adult (20-64 years) males and 7.0% of females use some form of tobacco. The corresponding rates for cigarette and waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) are 11.0% and 6.0%, respectively. The objective of the study was to determine the knowledge on tobacco smoking and past smoking related behavior of male patients attending the Quit Tobacco Clinics (QTC) in Bahrain. M...

Tobacco price increases, such as through taxation, are an effective strategy to reduce smoking prevalence, however this strategy is undermined by both discount and contraband tobacco.1 The discount cigarette market has grown substantially since 2003, with discount cigarettes selling for approximately $10-15 less per carton than premium brands.2 The illegal sale of contraband cigarettes has beco...

Laryngeal cancer is a disease of old age and the most common age of presentation is 6Th. 7Th decade of life. This disease is more common in men, but male to female ratio has been decreased from 15:1 to 4:1 during the last forty years. The most common risk factors are cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. This cross – sectional study carried out to determine the age of laryngeal cancer from...

OBJECTIVE Increased exposure to cigarette advertisements is associated with increases in adolescent smoking but the reasons for this association are not known. This study evaluated whether the developmental maturity of the self-concept, operationalized as self-conflict, moderated smoking intentions following exposure to cigarette advertisements among adolescents who have never smoked. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer rates are lower in Asians and Latinos than in whites. Ethnic differences in nicotine metabolism might explain, in part, ethnic differences in cigarette consumption and/or nicotine intake per cigarette and resultant tobacco-related cancer risk. We compared the rate of nicotine metabolism and the intake of nicotine per cigarette smoked among smokers of different ethnicities...