During one school year a health habits survey investigated cigarette smoking behavior in a total biracial population of children, ages 8 to 17 years old. Information was collected concerning each child's first smoking experience. Over 60 per cent of the children reported they were given their first cigarettes. Half of those starting before age 12 smoked their first cigarettes with a family memb...

Different compounds have been reported as biomarkers of a smoking habit, but, to date, there is no appropriate biomarker for tobacco-related exposure because the proposed chemicals seem to be nonspecific or they are only appropriate for short-term exposure. Moreover, conventional sampling methodologies require an invasive method because blood or urine samples are required. The use of a microtra...

BACKGROUND Smoking bans in public places have been shown to have an impact on smoking habits, however the potential influence of a university smoking ban on faculty and staff smoking habits remains elusive. METHODS This cross sectional study was implemented in Nayoro City, Japan in 2011, among the faculty and students of the Nayoro City University. Five years after the declaration of a total ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether running influences smoking habits. DESIGN Study of cases and controls, with 1:1 pairing. Retrospective longitudinal observational study. SETTING Primary care. City of Toledo, Spain. PARTICIPANTS CASES 48 healthy volunteer runners of 47+/-7.8 years of age. CONTROLS 48 healthy subjects, paired by gender and year of birth, chosen at random from the medic...

The objective of this study was to examine the association of women's cancer screenings with both personal and spouses' smoking status, as well as with the broader context of household smoking, in a United States national-level sample of women aged 42-75 years. Data were from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey Health Promotion Supplement. The sample included 1586 women who reported they ...

objective: smoking is a worldwide health problem. despite recent efforts to reduce the rate of smoking, adolescent smoking still remains a significant public health concern. current study was conducted to determine the effects of socio-environmental and personal factors on the smoking among adolescents. method: in the first stage of a longitudinal study of smoking in adolescents, 1785 students ...

This study aimed to determine the frequency of smoking and to explore factors associated with the smoking habits of female students at a dental hygiene school in Japan. Questionnaires regarding cigarette smoking were given to 168 female students. The response rate was 97.6%. The prevalence of smoking, including current and occasional smokers, was 20.3%. Among family members, only the smoking st...

Results Various practices were noted among nurses concerning the assessment of patients’ smoking history, passive smoking, smoking habits and cessation plans. The majority of nurses (56.0% yes, 28.0% sometimes) noted that psychiatric patient should be handled differently. They stated that smoking cessation may exacerbate psychiatric symptoms (38.0% yes, 62.0% sometimes) and may lead to an illne...

OBJECTIVES To study the association between smoking during pregnancy and hospitalization of the child before 8 months of age. DESIGN A follow-up study of 1974 children born in 1991 and 1992. RESULTS Overall, 158 (8%) of the children were hospitalized during the first 8 months of life. Compared with children whose mothers did not smoke during pregnancy, children with mothers who smoked 1 to ...