Abstract Background Smoking in one of the most serious public health problems. It is well known that it constitutes a major risk factor for chronic diseases and leading cause preventable death worldwide. Due to high prevalence smokers, new cost-effective strategies seeking increase smoking cessation rates are needed. Methods We performed Markov model-based cost-effectiveness analysis comparing ...

The capacity (the maximum number of users per sector that the system can support) and the interference statistics (expected value and variance) of sectors composed of cigar-shaped WCDMA microcells are studied. A model of 5 microcells is used to analyze the uplink capacity and interference statistics. The microcells are assumed to exist in rural zone highways. The capacity and the interference s...

The aim of this study was to determine the myeloid-related protein-8 and myeloid-related protein-14 levels in the gingival crevicular fluid of smoker patients with generalized aggressive periodontitis (SAgP), smoker patients with chronic periodontitis (SCP), smoker patients with gingivitis (SG-smoker control), non-smoker patients with generalized aggressive periodontitis (AgP), non-smoker patie...

OBJECTIVES The aim was (1) to investigate the association between education and smoking status (current, former and never-smoking) among non-western immigrants in Norway and (2) examine if these associations fit the pattern predicted by the model of the cigarette epidemic. DESIGN Data came from the Oslo Health Study and the Oslo Immigrant Health study (2000-2002). The first included all Oslo ...

Smoking affects a widespread network of neuronal functions by altering the properties of acetylcholinergic transmission. Recent studies show that nicotine consumption affects ascending auditory pathways and alters auditory attention, particularly in men. Here we show that smoking affects language lateralization in a sex-specific way. We assessed brain asymmetries of 90 healthy, right-handed par...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to provide insights in the spread of the smoking epidemic and eventual progress against cigarette smoking in West Germany. DESIGN This was a retrospective birth cohort analysis based on a cross sectional national survey. SETTING The survey was conducted in 1987 by the Ministry of Youth, Family and Health in order to identify priorities for health policy and promo...

OBJECTIVE Although extensive work has been done on cigarette smoking and its effects on pulmonary function, there are limited number of studies on water-pipe smoking. The effects of water-pipe smoking on health are not widely investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of water-pipe smoking on pulmonary permeability. METHODS Technetium-99m DTPA inhalation scintigraphy was...

Data collected during seven population health surveys over 18 years in Busselton, Western Australia, were examined to determine the effect of smoking on lung function and to investigate the development of chronic airflow limitation. Lung function was measured and details of respiratory illness and smoking histories were collected from subjects attending surveys at three year intervals from 1966...