Many thought it could never happen. In an action once considered inconceivable, the major pharmacy chain CVS Caremark recently announced that it will stop selling all tobacco products throughout its 7,600 outlets nationwide (1). Declaring that the sale of tobacco represented an unacceptable paradox for a business trying to promote health, CVS Caremark leaders began phasing out tobacco sales in ...

Some of the open questions on jet quenching are expected to be clarified by measuring heavy–flavored mesons at high transverse momentum. The formalism based on radiative in-medium energy–loss, which describes other high-pt results at RHIC, gives definite predictions for the suppression of charm and beauty quarks. However, the uncertainties from both contributions to the observed electrons make ...

BACKGROUND Waterpipe smoking is becoming a global public health problem, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). METHODS We try in this study, which is a cross sectional survey among a representative sample of waterpipe smokers in cafes/restaurants in Aleppo-Syria, to assess the time period for the beginning of this new smoking hype. We recruited 268 waterpipe smokers (161 men, ...

background: during recent years, there have been many advances in different types of pharmacological and non‑pharmacological tobacco control treatments. in this study, we aimed to identify the most effective smoking cessation methods used in quit based upon a review of the literature. methods: we did a search of pubmed, limited to english publications from 2000 to 2012. two trained reviewers in...

BACKGROUND In the context of food, convenience is generally associated with less healthy foods. Given the reality of present-biased preferences, if convenience was associated with healthier foods and less healthy foods were less convenient, people would likely consume healthier foods. This study examines the application of this principle in a school lunchroom where healthier foods were made mor...

We review some recent progress in our understanding of the phase diagram of non abelian gauge theories, by varying their flavor content – fermion representations and the number of flavors. In particular, we explore the way conformal symmetry can be restored before the loss of asymptotic freedom, and through a subtle interplay of perturbation theory, chiral dynamics and confining forces. It is w...

in this study, we investigated the causes behind increase trends in smoking and extent of tobacco use in saudi arabia. we also explored the issues related to and its impact tobacco control research and policy in the kingdom.data were collected from various published articles, public data based such as who, geneva and cdc atlanta. data were also obtained from surveys conducted by various institu...

background: nicotiana tobacco contains large amounts of alkaloid nicotine. tobacco plant is used for smoking and causes many health problems since it is high in nicotine which is one of the widely-recognized toxic compounds with serious side effects for different body organs. reducing nicotine content of this plant is a way to reduce its health hazards in cigarette smokers. utilizing the new me...

Abstract In the present work we use modified versions of MIT bag model, on which both a vector field and self-interacting term are introduced, to obtain hot quark matter investigate QCD phase diagram. We first analyze two-flavored constrained freeze-out liquid-gas transition at hadronic phase. Later, three-flavored subject β equilibrium charge neutrality is used compute star macroscopic propert...