These guidelines are an up-to-date and comprehensive tool to aid health professionals in treating smokers, recommending measures and strategies for managing each case based on clinical evidence. Written in a simplified and objective manner, the text is divided into two principal sections: Evaluation and Treatment. The sections both present comments on and levels of evidence represented by the r...

BACKGROUND Systematic data regarding adolescent smoking are needed at the national level to support evidence-based tobacco control in China. The goal of this study was to estimate smoking prevalence among Chinese adolescents using published data. METHODS Published studies were located electronically from the commonly used databases in Chinese and English, complemented by manual searching. For...

The problem of smoking among medical students is common worldwide, but the pattern and extent of the problem varies from place to place. Data from Sudanese medical students is limited. The aims of study was to know the extent of the problem of smoking among medical students, its routes and how it can be reduced. All students in the first and fifth year in the Faculty of Medicine, The National R...

The aim of this case-control study was to investigate whether some factors, that are associated with development of asthma, are significantly more present in the observed group of asthmatic patients, in comparison to the control group. Participants included 111 cases with asthma, and 108 controls with no asthma. Data obtained from cases and controls were compared according the sex. The study wa...

BACKGROUND Because of the magnitude of the global tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organisation developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an international legally binding treaty to control tobacco use. Adoption and implementation of specific tobacco control measures within FCTC is an outcome of a political process, where social norms and public opinion play important roles...

BACKGROUND Study results have shown that chronic exposure to cigarette smoke affects the taste function in humans. However, neither the quantitative impact on taste sensitivity nor the time-course of taste recovery on stopping smoking have been precisely examined. METHODS The experimental design included 2 phases, (i) a case-control phase comparing the taste sensitivity level measured by Elec...

The threeto four-decade lag between peak in smoking prevalence and subsequent peak in smoking-related mortality was a major factor affecting public awareness of the substantial health hazards of tobacco use in developed countries (Lopez et al., 1994). This factor may be applicable to periodontal disease if this disease is chronically affected by smoking epidemic. We searched the literature elec...

BACKGROUND Although the dangers of smoking, and the benefits of quitting, are well established and understood in the West, smoking remains popular among Asian men. We investigated the associations between smoking (including ex-smoking) and major causes of mortality in Asian men and women, and compared with Australians and New Zealanders (ANZ). METHODS An overview of 34 cohort studies in the A...

The harmful effects of smoking are now well documented1,2. The UK figures are disturbing: although the prevalence of smoking for adults is falling, in children it has been steadily rising since 19923. Passive smoking has been implicated in lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory diseases4,5. Children are most vulnerable to passive smoking, especially if they already have preexisting lung dis...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to examine the association between maternal passive smoking during pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous PTD and to explore the potential interaction of the single or joint gene polymorphism of CYP1A1 and GSTs with maternal passive smoking on the risk of spontaneous PTD. METHOD We investigated whether the association between maternal passive smoking and PTD c...