There has been concern that the availability of alternative less harmful forms of nicotine might inhibit smoking cessation and/or encourage those who would not otherwise have smoked to do so. The plausibility of such effects can be best assessed by looking at population trends in use of smoking in relation to alternatives. This paper looks at the relationships between snus use and smoking in Sw...

BACKGROUND National Health Service stop smoking services (NHS SSS) in the UK offer cost- effective smoking cessation services. Despite high abstinence rates after acute cessation treatment, the majority of clients have relapsed by one year. Several interventions have been identified, from trial data, as effective in preventing relapse to smoking. This study investigated uptake, feasibility and ...

Patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis are less likely to smoke than persons ofa similar age in the general population. This could be because smoking reduces the likelihood of developing sarcoidosis, or alternatively smoking could reduce the severity of the disease process so that smoking patients are underrepresented among patients with clinically overt disease. To evaluate these possibilities 64...

INTRODUCTION Smoke-free public places legislation has been introduced in many countries to protect the public from the harmful effects of secondhand smoking. While evaluations of smoke-free policies have demonstrated major public health benefits, the impact on youth smoking and inequalities in smoking remains unclear. This project aims to evaluate how smoke-free public places legislation in the...

Introduction  Myringoplasty is a commonly performed otologic surgery. Objectives  The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of prognostic factors like - size, site of perforation, status of operating ear, approach, status of contralateral ear, experience of surgeon, primary or revision myringoplasty, and smoking in graft uptake, as well as to evaluate the hearing results after myrin...

OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy of a proactive approach with a reactive approach to offer intensive smoking cessation intervention using motivational interviewing (MI). DESIGN Before-after comparison in 2 academic hospitals with parallel comparisons in 2 control hospitals. SETTING Academic hospitals in Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS Smokers hospitalised for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS)....

Abstract Background Emergency department (ED) patients disproportionally smoke compared to the general population and frequently utilize ED for routine, urgent, emergent care. Thus, is a target-rich environment interventions aimed at increasing smoking cessation, especially among vulnerable populations. Promotion of cessation in has potential address health inequalities reach that experience si...

Aims The United Kingdom and Australia have developed highly divergent policy responses to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). To understand the historical origins of these differences, we describe history tobacco control in each country key roles played setting ENDS its early stages by public health regulations networks, anti-smoking organizations, ‘vaper’ activist networks advocates h...

Conner et al and Best et al report the results of two longitudinal studies of teenagers in the UK that examined the relationship between vaping an e-cigarette and smoking a cigarette. Similar to studies conducted in the USA, 4 they both report an association between experimentation with vaping and subsequent experimentation with smoking. Fears that an increase in vaping will lead to an increase...