Berardi, Vincent Collins, Bradley N. Glynn, Laura M. Lepore, Stephen J. Mahabee-Gittens, E. Melinda Wilson, Karen M. Hovell, Melbourne F.
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Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
INTRODUCTION Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure creates health risks for non-smokers and is especially detrimental to children. This study evaluated whether immediate feedback in response to poor indoor air quality in children’s bedrooms can reduce the potential for SHS exposure, as measured by adherence to a World Health Organization (WHO) indoor air...
zhang;, caseng
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure increases the prevalence and severity of sinopulmonary diseases in children. The primary source of SHS exposure in children is through adults who live in the same house; however, the level of exposure may vary based on the adult smoking habits at home. This prospective cross-sectional study in Alberta, Canada, invest...
onoue;, ayumi
Heated tobacco products (HTPs) have become increasingly popular among smokers, especially among young adults in Japan in recent years. Assessments of secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure due to HTPs are scarce. The present study aimed to assess the urinary levels of total nicotine metabolites (TNMs) of non-smoking spouses and their children foll...
Garritsen, Heike H. Vermeulen, Jentien M. Rozema, Andrea D. van Lonkhuijzen, Luc R. C. W. Kunst, Anton E.
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Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
INTRODUCTION Studies on the impact of smoke-free policies (SFPs) on hospitals grounds on on-site smoking are scarce. On 1 October 2019, an SFP was implemented on the grounds of the Amsterdam UMC hospital in the Netherlands, including measures for sustained enforcement. This study assessed the impact of this SFP on smoking prevalence on hospital gro...
t., kevin
The objective of this study was to examine long-term trends in serum cotinine (COT) concentrations, as a measure of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, in U.S. nonsmokers using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 2003 to 2018. We analyzed NHANES serum COT results from 8 continuous NHANES 2 year cycles from 200...
Ferdous, Tarana Siddiqi, Kamran Semple, Sean Fairhurst, Caroline Dobson, Ruaraidh Mdege, Noreen Marshall, Anna-Marie Abdullah, S M Huque, Rumana
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Tobacco control
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is a health risk to non-smokers. Indoor particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with SHS exposure and is used as a proxy measure. However, PM2.5 is non-specific and influenced by a number of environmental factors, which are subject to geographical variation. The nature of association between SHS exposure and indo...
Becerra, Benjamin J Arias, Devin Becerra, Monideepa B
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Tobacco smoke has been associated with negative health outcomes, including those with chronic respiratory illnesses, such as asthma. This study aimed to assess the relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), as well as tobacco use (cigarette and electronic cigarettes), on asthma severity among adults with current asthma, wit...
melinda, e.
(1) Background: Home tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) and negative neighborhood characteristics adversely affect children’s overall health. The objective was to examine the associations of child TSE status and neighborhood characteristics among U.S. school-aged children. (2) Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of the 2018–2019 National Survey of...
todorović;, ivana
Background and Objectives: Cigarette smoking among the youth population has increased significantly in developing countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, no extant literature assesses the prevalence of tobacco use, nor identifies factors associated with smoking. This study determined the prevalence of cigarette smoking among a specifi...
Ou, Zejin Gao, Yunxia Jiang, Diwei Cui, Jiaxin Ren, Yixian Tang, Shihao Duan, Danping Yu, Danfeng Wang, Zhi
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Frontiers in Oncology
Background Secondhand smoke is an important risk factor to breast cancer patients’ survival. This article aimed to describe the epidemiological changes of health loss caused by female breast cancer attributable to secondhand smoke from 1990 to 2019. Methods Data on breast cancer was derived from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. The epidemio...
