Smoking is associated with an increased risk of tooth loss, but it is not known if this risk decreases significantly when individuals quit smoking. The objectives of this study were to describe the rates of tooth loss by smoking status in two populations of medically healthy men and women. Among the men, rates of tooth loss and edentulism in relation to smoking cessation were also evaluated. Th...

OBJECTIVES To study the changes in prevalence, characteristics and outcomes of pregnant smokers over time and legislative changes. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective nationwide cohort. PARTICIPANTS Our study consisted of 9627 randomly selected pregnancies from the Finnish Maternity Cohort (1987-2011), with demographic characteristics and pregnancy and perinatal data obtained from the Medical ...

The present study was undertaken to study the Peak Expiratory Flow Rate of healthy non-smoking women of Punjab using biomass fuels for cooking. The values of PEFR of these women were also compared with that of healthy non-smoking women using Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for cooking. The influence of age, height and weight on their PEFR values was also studied. One hundred and fifty healthy non...

OBJECTIVES Children's exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is causally linked to childhood morbidity and mortality. Over 38% of English children (aged 4-15) whose parents are smokers are exposed to SHS in the home. Little is known about the prevalence of SHS exposure in the homes of young infants (≤3 months). This study aimed to estimate maternal self-reported prevalence of SHS exposure among inf...

BACKGROUND As with many Indigenous peoples, smoking rates among Aboriginal Australians are considerably higher than those of the non-Indigenous population. Approximately 50% of Indigenous women smoke during pregnancy, a time when women are more motivated to quit. Antenatal care providers are potentially important change agents for reducing the harms associated with smoking, yet little is known ...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have focused the association between low birthweight and later disease. Our objective was to study the association between birthweight and later adult smoking and thereby explore a possible mechanism for the association between low birthweight and later adult disease. METHODS We studied associations between birthweight of women (n=247704) born in 1967-1995 and smok...

Introduction The common genetic variant (rs1051730) in the 15q24 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene cluster CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 was associated with smoking quantity and has been reported to be associated also with reduced ability to quit smoking in pregnant women but results were inconsistent in non pregnant women. The aim of this study was to explore the association between rs1051730 and s...

This study used five waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey to examine the relationship between living arrangements, smoking, and drinking among older adults in China from 1998-2008. We found that living arrangements had strong implications for cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption among the elderly. First, the likelihood of smoking was lower among older men living with ...

This investigation aimed at evaluating the prevalence of active smokers in hotel workers to underline the need for a non-smoking campaign at the workplace. Data on smoking habit were collected in a questionnaire which included 398 subjects of whom 170 were men and 228 women aged in average 29 and 35 years, respectively. Seventy-six men and 134 women declared themselves regular tobacco smokers. ...

BACKGROUND Cohort studies have shown that smoking has a substantial influence on coronary heart disease mortality in young people. Population based data on non-fatal events have been sparse, however. OBJECTIVE To study the impact of smoking on the risk of non-fatal acute myocardial infarction (MI) in young middle age people. METHODS From 1985 to 1994 all non-fatal MI events in the age group...