BACKGROUND Smoking has long been considered part of prison culture and studies have shown a high prevalence of smoking within correctional facilities. METHODS A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was administered to 173 male prisoners in the Chalkida prison, Greece. To assess current smoking habits, a hierarchical approach was adopted. The underlying conceptual framework included: (i)...

This study explored parental beliefs and behaviors designed to convey an antismoking message across levels of self-reported parent and adolescent smoking behavior. Parental self-efficacy, beliefs about smoking, the family relationship, antismoking messages, reactions to smoking, and household smoking rules were explored. Participants were 345 6th, 8th, and 10th graders (50% female; 93% White) a...

In order to elucidate the dose-response relationship between ingested inorganic arsenic and internal cancers, a total of 263 patients with blackfoot disease and 2293 healthy residents in the endemic area of arseniasis were recruited and followed up for 7 years. The information on consumption of high-arsenic artesian well water, sociodemographic characteristics, life-style and dietary habits, an...

OBJECTIVE To determine associations between younger youths' susceptibility to smoking and four household variables related to tobacco socialization: parental and sibling smoking, restrictions on smoking in the home and exposure to smoking in vehicles. METHODS A secondary analysis of the 2004/05 Canadian Youth Smoking Survey used logistic regression to investigate the relationships between you...

objective: cigarette smoking is a highly addictive behavior and nicotine dependence is a well known model for drug dependence. it also acts as a gateway drug for the use of other illicit substances. in 1999, iran ministry of health and the national research center carried out a study which revealed that 11.9% of iranian population use cigarette. methods: the present study is a cross-sectional h...

In the summer of 19701 felt it would be interesting to follow-up patients in my practice and to record any change in their smoking habits, in an attempt to determine the possible effectiveness of a general practitioner in stopping smoking. Between June 1970 and March 1971,100 patients were recruited. The patients were smokers with whom I had had no previous discussion of their smoking habits. P...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the vigilance of medical specialists as to the lifestyle of their cardiovascular outpatients by comparing lifestyle screening as registered in medical records versus a lifestyle questionnaire (LSQ), a study was carried out at the cardiovascular outpatient clinic of the university hospital of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, between June 2004 and June 2005. METHODS For 209 pat...

OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of sociodemographic factors on smoking habits in Italy and if an interaction exists between these variables. METHODS Data from the national survey "Health Conditions and Healthcare Services Use" in 2005 were used. The independent association between tobacco smoking and sociodemographical variables was assessed using logistic regression analysis. Interactions...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking issues in developing countries are usually taught non-systematically as and when the topic arose. The World Health Organisation and Global Health Professional Student Survey (GHPSS) have suggested introducing a separate integrated tobacco module into medical school curricula. Our aim was to assess medical students' tobacco smoking habits, their practices towards patie...

Cigarette consumption and inhaling, assessed using carboxyhaemoglobin levels, were studied in 1786 men to investigate the importance of tar and nicotine as determinants of smoking habits. No prior warning was given that smoking habits would be studied. Neither nicotine nor tar yields materially influenced the number of cigarettes smoked a day. Both nicotine and tar yields were negatively associ...