Excise taxes on sugary beverages have been proposed as a method to replicate the public health success of tobacco control and to generate revenue. As policymakers increase efforts to pass sugary beverage taxes, they can anticipate that manufacturers will emulate the strategies employed by tobacco companies in their attempts to counteract the impact of such taxes. Policymakers should therefore c...

The objective of the study is analyzing profitability performances BIST manufacturing sub-sectors for period 2019-2021 using different multi-criteria decision-making methods. Six criteria consisting financial ratios are determined, and seven examined. weights evaluation calculated with CRITIC Entropy methods, rankings obtained VIKOR TOPSIS Also, to convert negative values positive in decision m...

The aim of the article is to determine relationship between level internationalization food industry sectors and their economic financial results. Unpublished CSO data for years 2000-2017 were used. concerned processing fish, milk, meat, fruit vegetables, beverage production, bakery flour products, oils fats, grain mill starches starch ready-made feed animal feed. To conduct analysis, intensity...

OBJECTIVES The association between carbonated beverage consumption and bone mineral density was examined in a community-based cohort of older White women. METHODS One thousand women 44 to 98 years of age had bone mineral density measured at four sites and provided medical and behavioral histories, including type and quantity of carbonated beverages consumed. RESULTS Bone mineral density lev...

Recent case-control studies indicate that alcohol increases the risk of oral premalignant lesions (OPL) among tobacco users, but the independent association between alcohol and OPL remains unclear. We prospectively evaluated the association between alcohol consumption and the incidence of OPL. Participants were 41,458 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Alcohol consumption was asse...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and correlates of use of conventional and novel smokeless tobacco products among a national sample of US middle and high school students. METHODS Data from the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey were analyzed to determine national estimates of current use of conventional ("chewing tobacco", "snuff," or "dip"), novel ("snus" and "dissolvable tobacco products...

conclusions these results showed the preventive effect of hydroethanolic extract of n. sativa on tracheal responsiveness of guinea pig model of copd, which was as effective as vitamin c. results the tracheal responsiveness to both methacholine and ovalbumin in guinea pigs with copd were significantly higher than those of controls (p < 0.001 for both cases). the tracheal responsiveness in the co...