secondhand tobacco smoke
Childhood and adult exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and cardiac structure and function: results from Echo-SOL
... household secondhand tobacco smoke expo- sure as determined by the number of smokers who regu- larly smoke tobacco in the home was associated with worse left and right heart function ...
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Early exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and the development of allergic diseases in 4 year old children in Malmö, Sweden
... to secondhand tobacco smoke at 0 to 4 weeks were also to a very high degree exposed at 8 months and still highly exposed at 4 years of ...who smoke may be more alert in seek- ing medical care ...
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Indoor air pollution from secondhand tobacco smoke, solid fuels, and kerosene in homes with active tuberculosis disease in South Africa
... Objectives: Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS), use of solid fuels, and kerosene may play an important role in perpetuating the tuberculosis (TB) ...
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Secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and heart rate variability and inflammation among non-smoking construction workers: a repeated measures study
... Massachusetts, USA. Participants were invited to partici- pate in the study through letters sent by union leadership. Boilermaker construction workers are trained to weld on round vessels or boilers located in power ...
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Effects of HEPA Air Cleaners on Unscheduled Asthma Visits and Asthma Symptoms for Children Exposed to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke
... OBJECTIVE: The goal was to test the effects of high-efficiency, particulate- arresting (HEPA) air cleaners on unscheduled asthma visits and symp- toms among children with asthma exposed to secondhand smoke. ...
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Lung volumes identify an at-risk group in persons with prolonged secondhand tobacco smoke exposure but without overt airflow obstruction
... ► In this study of a cohort at risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to prolonged (although remote) exposure to second- hand tobacco smoke but with normal spirometr[r] ...
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Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 2003–2006
... This study provides recent, compre- hensive information about SHS expo- sure among children and adolescents in the United States. Our findings showed that serum cotinine levels were an order of magnitude lower among ...
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Relationships between serum and meconium biomarkers of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and their association with infant and early childhood growth
... postnatal tobacco smoke exposures on childhood growth (Table ...prenatal secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and BMI at 3 years of ...
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Secondhand and Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Exposure
... Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure of children and their fam- ilies causes significant morbidity and ...counsel tobacco users to quit, and to counsel children never to ...of tobacco ...
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Study of secondhand smoke pollutant concentration in car
... Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), passive smoking, involuntary smoking and perhaps a more descriptive term, tobacco smoke ...
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An exploratory study of knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke among women in Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia
... of tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs held by Ethiopian women in the Aleta Wondo ...of smoke-free ...with tobacco and limited exposure to pro-tobacco message to proactively ...
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Airborne Nicotine, Secondhand Smoke, and Precursors to Adolescent Smoking
... The analytic sample included 338 participants (from the original 406 participants) who endorsed that they “never smoked a cigarette, not even a few puffs” (53% girls, mean age = 12.9 years). On average, participants ...
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Tobacco smoke particles and indoor air quality (ToPIQ) - the protocol of a new study
... environmental tobacco smoke (ETS, also called second hand smoke) [5-7], which is a mixture of exhaled mainstream smoke (MS) and sidestream smoke (SS) released from the smoulder- ing ...
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Sociodemographic Characteristics and Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Women
... In the present study, it was shown that a higher level of education and social status in women reduced the risk of their exposure to secondhand smoke. The results of the present study indicated that wives ...
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Smoke-Free Air Laws and Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Nonsmoking Youth
... a smoke-free law (Table 1), ...a smoke-free law had a lower percent- age with detectable cotinine ...a smoke- free ...limited smoke-free coverage groups had a lower average NHANES adult county ...
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Modeling the effect of tobacco smoking on the in-host dynamics of HIV/AIDS
... are derived and conditions for their stability are established. Analytical results show that smoking affects both T-cells and Macrophages however, its effects are severe in macrophages than in T-cells. Stability for ...
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Associations Between Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Sleep Patterns in Children
... to tobacco smoke, and sleep patterns were assessed through parent reports using the Children’s Sleep Habits ...prenatal tobacco exposure, maternal depression, Home Observation for Measurement of the ...
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Sensitivity to Secondhand Smoke Exposure Predicts Future Smoking Susceptibility
... showed a trend for a significant 40% reduction in smoking susceptibility risk. The combined results suggest that this reaction may be a marker for mechanisms that protect against smoking susceptibility. Among the co- ...
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Directly measured secondhand smoke exposure and COPD health outcomes
... Personal direct cigarette smoking is the most important single causal factor for developing COPD. The view that cigarette smoking is the sole meaningful factor in the epi- demiology and natural history of COPD, however, ...
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The Secondhand Smoke Exposure Scale (SHSES): A hair nicotine validated tool for assessing exposure to secondhand smoke among elderly adults in primary care
... associated with the level of exposure to SHS, it is likely that the proposed model might slightly underestimate exposure to SHS from public places, as the age group also included elderly adults and participants from ...
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