Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in this country and more needs to be done to reduce smoking rates. Harm reduction is one policy option. Smokers smoke for the nicotine, but die from the other toxins in cigarette smoke. Harm reduction in tobacco control aims to reduce the harm arising from nicotine use by shifting smokers, who are unable to quit, to using far less hazar...

1) Smoking cessation 2) Replacement of the pharmacologic (pleasurable) sensations of nicotine in cigarette products with non-cigarette products that can be viewed as providing either medicinal nicotine or analogue chemicals with similar function 3) Reduction in toxic components of cigarette smoke immediately to levels that are suggested by current science as ‘‘acceptable’’ based on existing dos...

BACKGROUND Smoking is Australia's leading preventable cause of premature mortality and a major contributor to the national disease burden. If quit rates do not dramatically improve, then smoking will continue to be a major public health issue for decades to come. Harm-reduction approaches using novel nicotine products like e-cigarettes as long term replacements for smoking have the potential to...

conclusions the research revealed that nonsmokers showed better mental health and dyadic adjustment than smokers, thus suggesting that smoking endangers and can impair the tranquility of families and that smoking also threatens the dyadic adjustment of couples. background the mental health and dyadic adjustment of smokers is a matter of serious concern which brings many demerits on mental healt...

cigarette smoke is injurious to both oral cavity and internal body environment. saliva is the firstbody fluid to encounter the dangerous smoke. the aim of our present study was, therefore, toevaluate the influence of smoking on the antioxidant activity of saliva of healthy smokers.antioxidant capacity of saliva was determined using different methods in the centrifuged saliva from25 male smokers...

Argemone mexicana is a herbaceous medicinal plant belonging to the family Papaveraceae. It is indigenous to Mexico. Nowadays it is distributed throughout the hotter parts of India, up to 1500 meters elevation as a weed. A.mexicana seeds were collected from the Agasthiyamalai Biosphere Reserve Forest of South Western Ghats regions. The seeds were crushed by using a Mortar and Pestle. The oil was...

objective(s):one cause of cigarette smoking is oxidative stress that may alter the cellular antioxidant defense system, induce apoptosis in lung tissue, inflammation and damage in liver, lung, and kidney. it has been shown that chinese green tea (cgt) (lung chen tea) has higher antioxidant property than black tea. in this paper, we will explore the preventive effect of cgt on cigarette smoke-in...

the association between indoor smoke exposure due to traditional baking (baking homemade bread) and anthracosis has rarely been investigated. the aim of the present study is to quantify such association among the iranian population. a hospital based case-control study was carried out on 83 anthracotic cases and 155 controls (83 individuals with non-anthracotic pulmonary disorders from the pulmo...