Smoking - Epidemiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

State-specific secondhand smoke exposure and current cigarette smoking among adults - United States, 2008.

11 Nov 2009 Secondhand smoke (SHS) causes immediate and long-term adverse health effects in nonsmoking adults and children, including heart disease and lung cancer, and SHS exposure occurs primarily in homes and workplaces. Smoke-free policies, including not ... Read more...

Cigarette smoking among adults and trends in smoking cessation - United States, 2008.

11 Nov 2009 Cigarette smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States. Full implementation of population-based strategies and clinical interventions can educate adult smokers about the dangers of tobacco use ... Read more...

Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may affect brain development and behavior in adolescent offspring. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in mediating the relationship between PEMCS ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Smoking - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• State-specific secondhand smoke exposure and current cigarette smoking among adults - United States, 2008. 11 Nov 2009
• Cigarette smoking among adults and trends in smoking cessation - United States, 2008. 11 Nov 2009
• Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype. 30 Oct 2009
• Risk factors for heart failure: a population-based case-control study. 30 Oct 2009
• Density of tobacco retailers near schools: effects on tobacco use among students. 30 Oct 2009
• Youth smoking status: perceptions versus measurements. 30 Oct 2009
• Nondaily and social smoking: an increasingly prevalent pattern. 24 Oct 2009
• Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case-control study of SIDS in south west England. 11 Oct 2009
• [General health in Icelandic farmers] 29 Sep 2009
• Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Lifecourse socio-economic mobility and oral health in middle age. 29 Sep 2009
• Age-related changes on thin-section CT images. 29 Sep 2009
• Human papillomavirus reduces the prognostic value of nodal involvement in tonsillar squamous cell carcinomas. 29 Sep 2009
• Relation of alcohol consumption and coronary heart disease in hypertensive male physicians (from the Physicians' Health Study). 29 Sep 2009
• Public smoking bans are good for the heart. 27 Sep 2009
• Cardiovascular effect of bans on smoking in public places: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 27 Sep 2009
• Paraoxonase variants relate to 10-year risk in coronary artery disease: impact of a high-density lipoprotein-bound antioxidant in secondary prevention. 27 Sep 2009
• Antiphospholipid antibodies and risk of myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke in young women in the RATIO study: a case-control study. 23 Sep 2009
• Support by New Zealand smokers for new types of smokefree areas: national survey data. 23 Sep 2009
• Smokefree cars in New Zealand: rapid research among stakeholders on attitudes and future directions. 23 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Smoking'

Definition: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco.

Descriptor UI: D012907

Alternative terms: Smoking; Tobacco Smoking; Cigarette Smoking; Smoking, Cigarette; Smoking, Tobacco;

Related Mesh Headings: Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Tobacco Use Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.466.753;

Technical Notes: almost exclusively tobacco smoking: not for smoking marijuana ( = MARIJUANA SMOKING); smokers' patches, smokers' tongue = LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; cancer caused by smoking = organ/neopl term with /etiol (not /chem ind) + SMOKING /adv eff (not TOBACCO USE DISORDER); passive smoking = TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; SMOKING CESSATION is also available