background: india has a high burden of tobacco usage and its related morbidity and mortality. almost 30% of the indian population above 15 years of age use some form of tobacco. men usually use smoked tobacco, while women are more likely to use smokeless (chewed) tobacco. tobacco usage has been identified as a risk factor for non-communicable diseases (ncds) among slum dwellers in urban cities....

Background: Tobacco is the most important preventable cause of disease burden and death all over the world. Apart from being the single most important determinant of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, smoking is also a threat to oral health. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) as a part of Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) was developed to monitor tobacco use, elicit attitudes about...

Treatment of solid and liquid tobacco wastes with high nicotine content remains a longstanding challenge. Here, we explored an environmentally friendly approach to replace tobacco waste disposal with resource recovery by genetically engineering Pseudomonas putida. The biosynthesis of 3-succinoyl-pyridine (SP), a precursor in the production of hypotensive agents, from the tobacco waste was devel...

To date, the presequence of the mitochondrial beta-subunit of ATPase from tobacco is the only signal sequence that has been shown to target a foreign protein into plant mitochondria in vivo. Here we report that the presequence of a yeast mitochondrial protein directs bacterial beta-glucuronidase (GUS) specifically into the mitochondrial compartment of transgenic tobacco plants. Fusions between ...

The current study experimentally tested the effects of two types of content commonly found in anti-tobacco televisionmessages – content focused on communicating a health threat about tobacco use (fear) and content containing disgust related images – on how viewers processed these messages. In a 2· 2within-subjects experiment, participantswatched anti-tobacco television ads that varied in the am...

The paper presents data on the organisation of the Museum tobacco exhibition, i.e. the professional processing of the material from the Smoking Accessories collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, insight into the holdings of other museums, archives, private collections and individuals, and field exploration. Particular emphasis was placed on national references on the cultivation and c...

Ustilago maydis is a fungal pathogen of maize. Some strains of U. maydis encode secreted polypeptide toxins capable of killing other susceptible strains of U. maydis. We show here that one of these toxins, the KP6 killer toxin, is synthesized by transgenic tobacco plants containing the viral toxin cDNA under the control of a cauliflower mosaic virus promoter. The two components of the KP6 toxin...

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...

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...