• The price of a packet of cigarettes should rise to reflect the wide-ranging environmental damage caused by the tobacco industry, from deforestation to water pollution, a major report has recommended. (independent.co.uk)
  • More than 20,000 square miles of land is taken up around the world to accommodate tobacco farms, which use more than 22 billion tonnes of water, meaning a person smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes a day for 50 years is responsible for 1.4 million litres of water depletion over their lifetime. (independent.co.uk)
  • In the UK, which has very little domestic tobacco production, smoking cigarettes "is done entirely at the expense of other nations' resources and environmental health", the report said. (independent.co.uk)
  • This study investigates associations between different channels of protobacco media and susceptibility to smoking cigarettes, cigarette experimentation, and current tobacco use among US middle and high school students. (who.int)
  • The 25 year-old, plain-text Surgeon General warnings will be out, replaced with updated, straightforward messages like "WARNING: Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers," "WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive" and "WARNING: Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease. (prwatch.org)
  • I mean to put a warning that reads "Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in non smokers" on a pack of cigarettes is ridiculous. (prwatch.org)
  • To discourage smoking we use taxes to make cigarettes expensive, but we also rely on regulations to limit where they can be sold, smoked and who can buy them. (afr.com)
  • Chinese smokers smoke an average of 15.8 cigarettes a day, which works out to more than 2 trillion cigarettes a year. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Mao reported liked foreign 555 cigarettes but also smoked Chinese-made Zhounghua. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Deng favored special Chinese-produced Panda cigarettes made from the tips of tobacco leaves that now sell for up to $100 a pack. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Carbon monoxide levels in main- and sidestream smoke from cigarettes of selected brands and estimation of active and passive smokers exposure to this compound. (jurnalrespirologi.org)
  • Don't actively smoke or use electronic cigarettes in the home or car. (almanac.com)
  • If you have visitors who smoke or use electronic cigarettes, ask them not to smoke indoors. (almanac.com)
  • Insist that visitors do not smoke or use electronic cigarettes in the presence of children. (almanac.com)
  • Smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes is the number one cause of lung disease. (curejoy.com)
  • In 2001, the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Bill was a landmark effort. (canfightcancer.com)
  • This report had a huge impact on the changing attitudes of smoking cigarettes in England, Wales and Australia. (amazonaws.com)
  • The consumption of cigarettes, which had been seen as a normal day-to-day habit, morphed into an ugly realisation that smoking had harmful effects. (amazonaws.com)
  • The changing perception of cigarettes in the 1940s encouraged women to pursue smoking as a recreational activity. (amazonaws.com)
  • After research suggested smoking cigarettes could lead to death, the number of female smokers still continued to rise. (amazonaws.com)
  • One advertisement consisted of facing two-page advertisements titled "A word to smokers (about nonsmokers and anti-smokers)" and "A word to nonsmokers (about smokers). (wikipedia.org)
  • What is the danger of smokers harming others via second-hand smoke? (jpost.com)
  • RESULTS: In 2012, 27.9% of respondents were never-smokers who reported being susceptible to trying cigarette smoking. (who.int)
  • Results: The proportion of students who smoking was 45,92%, the existence of smokers role model in the family influenced smoking behaviour in those students OR=5,724 (p=0,001). (jurnalrespirologi.org)
  • Even when smokers never smoke inside the home, smoke residues can persist on their hair and clothing, and spread to surfaces inside their homes. (almanac.com)
  • Request that smokers wash their hands and, if possible, change their clothes after smoking. (almanac.com)
  • According to studies, ninety percent of all lung cancer deaths in women smokers are attributable to smoking. (curejoy.com)
  • Tobacco smokers continued to decline through the 20th century. (amazonaws.com)
  • Today, 91 percent of people worldwide live in areas where air pollution levels exceed the World Health Organization's recommended limits. (nybooks.com)
  • An advertisement of KLM Airlines as seen in Amsterdam, the Netherlands August 24 2023. (businesslive.co.za)
  • They were also sceptical about the level of carbon emissions multinational tobacco firms said were linked to cigarette production, noting that these totals were significantly lower than those recorded by scientists working on the study. (independent.co.uk)
  • Annual tobacco production contributes almost 84 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions to climate change - around 0.2 per cent of the global total, the report found. (independent.co.uk)
  • The law gave the EPA the authority to control vehicle tailpipe emissions and fuel additives, and to require new power plants and industrial facilities to use the best available pollution-control technology. (nybooks.com)
  • Nearly half a century after the Clean Air Act instituted the world's most stringent emissions controls, the problem of air pollution is far from being solved in the US or anywhere else. (nybooks.com)
  • blamed on the transportation sector, energy production, While controlling the natural sources of air pollution industrial emissions, agricultural operations, wastes is perhaps difficult and may need long-term mitigation, open burning practices, and household use of unclean curtailing other man-made sources is relatively feasible fuels for cooking, heating ad lighting (1). (who.int)
  • While it's true that economists like me like the idea of raising revenue from a source of pollution (be it tobacco or fossil fuels) so that less needs to be collected from wages or profits, if the politics of switching the tax mix are too hard, it's still possible to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (afr.com)
  • Its annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report showed that fine particulate air pollution - which comes from vehicle and industrial emissions, wildfires and more - remains the "greatest external threat to public health. (headlinehealth.com)
  • Despite recent emissions controls in developed countries, global mercury pollution is on the rise due to massive growth of industry in countries like India and China. (ageofautism.com)
  • Filtrete #ad - Attracts and captures microscopic particles such as smoke, cough and sneeze debris, bacteria and viruses--and large particles, including lint, household dust and pollen. (gnawoo.com)
  • [ 4 ] Urinary cotinine levels, a marker of recent tobacco exposure, are present in 50-75% of adult nonsmokers, confirming that exposure to ETS is nearly ubiquitous. (medscape.com)
  • Mitter added , "Since heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, it is important for physicians to assess for a number of modifiable risk factors for heart disease, including household air pollution, so that they can intervene and help patients and communities worldwide transition to cleaner burning fuels and reduce the risk for cardiovascular death. (belmarrahealth.com)
  • Human studies suggest tobacco smoking is a risk factor for cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). (iospress.nl)
  • Poor air quality can be caused by mold, dust, off-gassing associated with building materials, radon, carbon dioxide, tobacco smoke, cooking fumes, bathroom exhaust, and simple metabolic processes of humans and animals, where CO2 and other by-products are released simply through breathing. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The mechanism by which air pollution is toxic to the brain is not yet fully understood, in particular, the pathway to the brain of particulate matter (PM)-small pollutants particles which can carry PAHs on their surface. (qz.com)
  • Because particulate pollutants scatter, diffuse, and absorb incoming solar radiation, a net negative radiative forcing, decreased air pollution can yield surface warming. (cdc.gov)
  • This study tests the hypothesis that cigarette smoke (CS) exposures can impair brain insulin/IGF signaling and alter expression of AD-associated proteins. (iospress.nl)
  • PM's studies revealed that inhaled fresh secondhand smoke is approximately four times more toxic per gram in its total particulate matter than mainstream cigarette smoke (the smoke the smoker himself inhales). (prwatch.org)
  • Ever noticed that rugs, draperies, and upholstered furniture have smelled like cigarette smoke? (almanac.com)
  • The toxic residue left by cigarette smoke long after it's gone is called " thirdhand smoke . (almanac.com)
  • Layers of these invisible cigarette-smoke residues can build up on surfaces and sink deep into rugs, draperies, and upholstered furniture. (almanac.com)
  • A controversial researcher on air pollution and secondhand cigarette smoke is suing UCLA to get his position back, claiming that his firing was an illegal effort to quash academic dissent and protect politically correct views. (latimes.com)
  • He previously encountered opposition to his research, funded in part by the tobacco industry, that said the health risks of secondhand cigarette smoke were not as bad as other health advocates had portrayed them. (latimes.com)
  • Risk factors for asthma include a family history of allergic disease, the presence of allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE), viral respiratory illnesses , exposure to aeroallergens , cigarette smoke, obesity , and lower socioeconomic status. (medscape.com)
  • Helps remove smoke and other chemicals, as well as bad odors. (gnawoo.com)
  • Another threat is the residual nicotine and other toxic brew of chemicals left by tobacco smoke long after the smoke-and maybe even its smell-have left an indoor environment. (almanac.com)
  • Alcoholic beverages and tobacco smoking are also group one carcinogens, which is why these are also not appropriate to consume in health organisations. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Cancer results from a combination of spontaneous mutations that arise with age-just call it "bad luck"-and environmental exposures to carcinogens such as tobacco, ultraviolet light or viruses. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Using previous knowledge about the specific mutational patterns caused by exposures to carcinogens such as tobacco smoke or UV light, the researchers could estimate what proportion of driving mutations were caused by carcinogens and what proportion arose from accidental alterations in DNA that occur during normal cell division. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Confirming epidemiological studies, they found that melanomas and lung, bladder and cervical cancers are largely attributable to exposure to carcinogens such as UV light, tobacco or human papillomavirus, whereas brain and spinal cord tumors called gliomas and prostate tumors called adenocarcinomas are mostly the result of intrinsic mutations that accumulate with age. (scientificamerican.com)
  • In such properties, it may be necessary to replace carpeting, wall boards, counters, and furnishings to completely eliminate exposure to tobacco-specific toxins/carcinogens. (almanac.com)
  • Result, "Kwit" [phonétiquement « quitter » en anglais] has become the first smoking cessation application validated by the WHO and is therefore recommended on the organization's official website. (atca-africa.org)
  • 2000. Strategies for reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, increasing tobacco-use cessation, and reducing initiation in communities and health-care systems. (cdc.gov)
  • T he most effective available treatment for COPD is smoking cessation. (curejoy.com)
  • Tobacco production is often more environmentally damaging than that of essential commodities such as food crops, the study by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control found. (independent.co.uk)
  • This was despite the announcement by Minister Moshe Arbel this week of an "action plan to reduce smoking," which made no mention at all of this issue of protecting people from others' toxic smoke. (jpost.com)
  • The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that a toxic air alert has been issued for London after 'very high' pollution levels. (cnn.com)
  • The condensate ("tar") derived from secondhand smoke is approximately three times more toxic per gram and two to six times more tumorigenic per gram than the condensate produced by mainstream smoke when applied to skin. (prwatch.org)
  • The accumulation of toxic heavy metals inhaled from smoking may be associated with lung cancer. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Hall JC, Bernert JT, Hall DB, St. Helen G, Kudon LH, Naeher LP. Assessment of exposure to secondhand smoke at outdoor bars and family restaurants in Athens, Georgia using salivary cotinine external icon . (cdc.gov)
  • His pneumologist warned him that problems from some health hazards - like tobacco smoke, coal dust and asbestos - may not manifest for years or decades. (pressherald.com)
  • Risk factors include having close contact with someone who has bronchitis, failure to get age-appropriate vaccinations, and exposure to tobacco smoke, fumes, dust and air pollution. (asthmaforecast.com)
  • Although institutional capacities are limited in this from those in other parts of the world, in part due to the regard, there are still numerous WHO resources available arid nature and high prevalence of natural dust, as well to help countries understand their air pollution problems as the widespread practice of biomass and solid waste and identify priority actions and interventions to protect burning. (who.int)
  • Using random effects meta-analysis, 18 case control studies without tobacco industry affiliation yielded a non-significant pooled odds ratio of 0.91 (95% CI, 0.75-1.10), while 8 case control studies with tobacco industry affiliation yielded a significant pooled odds ratio of 0.86 (95% CI, 0.75-0.98) suggesting that smoking protects against AD. (nih.gov)
  • Would a Coalition government seek to achieve this by centrally planning the whole of the economy, or would it then adopt - like all other developed market economies - a price on carbon pollution, and give the magic of the market a chance to do its work. (onlineopinion.com.au)
  • Newly-released documents show oil giant Exxon had scientific evidence forty years ago that climate change is being fueled by carbon pollution, and spent millions covering it up, propping up politicians to block action to protect us," reads the ad's voiceover. (lcv.org)
  • The oil giant had grasped the dangers of burning fossil fuels since 1977, investigations showed, despite its long-standing public stance that the science was "uncertain" and persistent efforts to block legislation that would control carbon pollution. (grist.org)
  • The 1950 report suggested pollution from exhaust fumes from cars, industrial plants, coal fires and gas-works could have been reasons for the increase in deaths from lung cancer. (amazonaws.com)
  • This is largely a result from healthy ambient air quality, countries must address the increased morbidity and mortality attributed to stroke, major sources of air pollution in different contexts and heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, resource settings. (who.int)
  • The report's authors accused tobacco firms of having been "quick to capitalise on weaker regulatory frameworks and growing populations" in lower income countries to shift the environmental and social burden overseas. (independent.co.uk)
  • The environmental impacts of cigarette smoking, from cradle to grave, add significant pressures to the planet's increasingly scarce resources and fragile ecosystems,' said Professor Nick Voulvoulis, from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, who co-authored the report. (independent.co.uk)
  • 466 The Tobacco Institute hired the Roper Organization in 1978 to survey public attitudes on environmental tobacco smoke. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Tobacco Institute criticized the United States Environmental Protection Agency's 1993 report declaring tobacco smoke to be a Class A human carcinogen. (wikipedia.org)
  • Environmental tobacco smoke: a hazard to children. (cdc.gov)
  • To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. (grist.org)
  • A failure to investigate adverts containing misleading environmental claims about offsetting - dubbed 'greenwash' - and placed in the run up to the COP26 climate summit by the airline EasyJet - the reason given being that an internal policy process made it inappropriate to engage in a routine investigation into the ad. (theecologist.org)
  • Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or secondhand smoke, is increasingly recognized as the direct cause of lung disease in adults and children. (medscape.com)
  • Almost 90 per cent of all tobacco growing is concentrated in the developing world, but the authors noted that most of the profits from the industry end up in developed countries. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Tobacco Institute, Inc. was a United States tobacco industry trade group, founded in 1958 by the American tobacco industry. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was initially to supplement the work of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC), which later became the Council for Tobacco Research. (wikipedia.org)
  • This we see as the most dangerous development to the viability of the tobacco industry that has yet occurred. (wikipedia.org)
  • In December 1987 the Tobacco Institute's executive committee discussed creating an industry-based Center for Indoor Air Research, intended to broaden the question of indoor air pollution beyond tobacco smoke. (wikipedia.org)
  • For evidence of tobacco industry affiliation, http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu was searched. (nih.gov)
  • In contrast, 14 cohort studies without tobacco-industry affiliation yielded a significantly increased relative risk of AD of 1.45 (95% CI, 1.16-1.80) associated with smoking and the three cohort studies with tobacco industry affiliation yielded a non-significant pooled relative risk of 0.60 (95% CI 0.27-1.32). (nih.gov)
  • Despite tobacco industry claims, a new study found that banning menthol-flavored. (atca-africa.org)
  • This is LCV's second ad tying ExxonMobil's attempts to deny climate science to a candidate's support for the oil industry. (lcv.org)
  • This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world's largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation-an approach many have likened to the lies spread by the tobacco industry regarding the health risks of smoking. (lcv.org)
  • These assertions were based on research conducted or funded by companies in the tobacco industry. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Imposing controls on smoking is difficult in China because the industry is state-owned and highly lucrative. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Recently the advertising industry has itself become the focus of attention and hosted its own 'global summit' during the Glasgow conference called Ad Net Zero to pledge action. (theecologist.org)
  • One acid test for the industry is whether they will simply drop as clients major polluters who promote fossil fuels and their intensive use, as some agencies dropped tobacco clients even before cigarette advertising was banned. (theecologist.org)
  • The aluminum industry is one of the leading offenders with regard to fluoride pollution, and the atomic bomb is produced with large amounts of uranium hexafluoride, a chemical colloquially known in the nuclear industry as "hex. (fpollution.com)
  • When it came time for industry to pay the price for their fluoride pollution during World War II, corporate lawyers had more than just money on their side. (fpollution.com)
  • The 50s heralded a time of transition for the tobacco industry as perceptions towards smoking were changing. (amazonaws.com)
  • This chapter fo- tobacco industry (Nsimba and Suss- research on social inequalities cuses predominantly on this region, man, 2006). (who.int)
  • Infants exposed to indoor or outdoor air pollution, including secondhand smoke, have an increased risk of pneumonia during childhood as well as an increased risk of chronic respiratory diseases - such as asthma - for the rest of their lives, one report states. (cnn.com)
  • Ambient air pollution: respiratory hazards to children. (cdc.gov)
  • 1985. Respiratory effects of photochemical oxidant air pollution in exercising adolescents. (cdc.gov)
  • Thirdhand smoke poses complex research challenges and a broad array of potential harms from the smoke residues, including an increasing risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancers, changes to DNA , asthma and other respiratory diseases, and impaired wound healing. (almanac.com)
  • By reduc- ing air pollution levels, countries can reduce the burden of disease from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma. (who.int)
  • Our study, using exposure history and time, is the first to find a significant and independent increased risk for all-cause, total cardiovascular disease, and heart attack deaths due to increasing lifetime exposures to household air pollution from kerosene or diesel burning. (belmarrahealth.com)
  • The world body has set itself the objective in a 2010-2025 plan, of stopping 30% of the world's population from smoking and has thus avoided millions of deaths around the world. (atca-africa.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco use is responsible for the deaths of about six million people worldwide each year. (jurnalrespirologi.org)
  • The High Court of Justice is now reviewing an application filed against several government ministries for not acting to prevent harmful second-hand smoke (SHS) caused by neighbors who smoke in balconies, houses, yards, or next to windows. (jpost.com)
  • wareness of tobacco control policy and the harmful effects of SHS. (bvsalud.org)
  • Both indoor and outdoor air pollution have an important effect on the health and development of children, and not just in the stereotypical 'polluted cities' context but also for very poor rural families who cook indoors," said Joy Lawn, professor of maternal reproductive and child health epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (cnn.com)
  • Children, women, older people and outdoor workers, other sources of indoor air pollution such as incense and among other vulnerable groups, are at greater risks as candles burning, should be minimized or even eliminated, they are subjected to higher levels of air pollution. (who.int)
  • People who stop smoking, even well into the middle age, avoid most of the subsequent risks of lung cancer. (curejoy.com)
  • Several studies had proposed that smoking might be a cause of lung cancer before 1950, but until then people remained sceptical as the risks seemed minimal. (amazonaws.com)
  • Ministers suggested additional attention on some factors that particularly affect developing countries, including injury (for example, through motor vehicle crashes or at home) and mentioned that some risks are modified (for instance, tobacco chewing and home brewing of alcohol) or different (such as chewing arica beans) in some such countries. (who.int)
  • There was support for assessing risks under the broad headings of the environment, occupation, consumption or use of alcohol, tobacco and other addictive substances, nutrition, reproduction and sexual behaviour and violence. (who.int)
  • Interestingly, much less focus is placed on indoor air quality, despite the fact that pollution levels are generally two to five times higher indoors than out and can be up to 100 times higher in big cities. (howstuffworks.com)
  • In most of the US smoking indoors,in public meeting places has already been bannend.Many municipalities are now considering banning smoking even in outdoor places where the public congregates.Many renters are now finding that they can not light up even in the homes/ apartments they rent. (prwatch.org)
  • For instance, if you are smoking, try not to do it indoors because the smoke is undoubtedly a hazardous substance especially if you have weak lungs or there are young children around. (articleszine.com)
  • If you visit family and friends who smoke indoors, stay overnight in a smoke-free hotel. (almanac.com)
  • Alongside health benefits, we see a stepwise reduction in diet-related climate pollution as our diet becomes increasingly plant-based. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Region may be implicated for exacerbation of this comes from and what emission rates and atmospheric air pollution and climate change dilemma even more concentrations are, and what actions are to be taken severely. (who.int)
  • It spurred speculation that Big Oil might face a reckoning for misleading the public about the dangers of climate change, much as Big Tobacco did in the 1990s after decades spent denying that smoking could cause cancer. (grist.org)
  • Advertising is a bellwether of climate action because it reveals the degree to which corporations feel pressured to respond to the climate emergency, and also whether those responses reflect real change, or just the need for better green spin to continue with pollution as usual. (theecologist.org)
  • However, experimental data linking tobacco smoke exposures to underlying mediators of neurodegeneration, including impairments in brain insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling in AD are lacking. (iospress.nl)
  • Secondhand CS exposures caused molecular and biochemical abnormalities in brain that overlap with the findings in AD, and many of these effects were sustained or worsened despite short-term CS withdrawal. (iospress.nl)
  • Tobacco transnationals based in high income countries are literally and metaphorically burning the resources and the future of the most vulnerable people on our planet,' said Dr Nicholas Hopkinson of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who co-authored the report. (independent.co.uk)
  • tobacco usage - For many years, smoking tobacco was touted as something that is good for people. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Unfortunately, the current advice to throw out carpeting, upholstered furniture, repaint or even replace drywall, or move to a space where people have never smoked isn't practical or possible for most Americans. (almanac.com)
  • Many of the complaints argued that it was irresponsible of the car maker to provoke sentiment against rules for driving and vehicles that are made to protect people and the environment, while selling a large, heavy vehicle whose levels of pollution are 250% above EU targets for an average car . (theecologist.org)
  • Doctors really cannot know the details surrounding the reasons why people smoke tobacco," he said. (amazonaws.com)
  • Growing up as a teenager, the impacts of peer pressure and deindividuation can influence young people to partake in smoking tobacco. (amazonaws.com)
  • [ 5 , 6 ] Current estimates are that more than 3 million people die annually from tobacco-related disease worldwide. (medscape.com)
  • By the 1990s the Tobacco Institute had lost its preeminent role in tobacco lobbying to the market leader, Philip Morris, but continued to gather intelligence on anti-smoking sentiment and legislative actions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Data are lacking regarding the prevalence of international ETS exposure, but trends of increased tobacco consumption in Asia, South America, and Africa will increase the frequency of ETS-related disease. (medscape.com)
  • In 1970-1972, tobacco consumption in developed countries was 3.25 times higher than in the developing world. (medscape.com)
  • Those exposed to the highest levels of air pollution during pregnancy were more likely to develop autistic spectrum disorders. (qz.com)
  • For example, one study of Californian children showed that those exposed to the highest levels of traffic-related air pollution during pregnancy and in the first year of life were more likely to develop autistic spectrum disorders than those exposed to the lowest levels. (qz.com)
  • in order to reduce air pollution and exposure levels. (who.int)
  • Smoke, tobacco and high levels of air pollution can increase the risk of ear infection. (apsense.com)
  • Tests have found measurable levels of nicotine in new residents of formerly-smoking homes and hotel rooms - even after the unit has been professionally cleaned and left unoccupied for months! (almanac.com)
  • In an animal model, tobacco exposure induced systemic and local responses, including elevation of plasma levels of C5a and brain-derived neurotrophic factor and increases in pulmonary tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interleukin (IL)-5, monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, and the density of substance P-positive nerves along the bronchial epithelium. (medscape.com)
  • The study estimates that almost half the Israeli population suffers from second-hand smoke (SHS) penetrating their homes, mostly from smoking neighbors. (jpost.com)
  • The study also found that only one out of four families who suffers from smoke infiltrating their homes complain about it to the smoking neighbor, homeowner, or residents' committee. (jpost.com)
  • The paper was published under the title "Tobacco smoke incursion into private residences in Israel: a cross-sectional study examining public perceptions of private rights and support for governmental policies" in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research , which is a leading health policy research journal funded by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. (jpost.com)
  • The next step would be to create a study to measure particulate matter to better establish a dose-response relationship between household air pollution and cardiovascular death," he concluded . (belmarrahealth.com)
  • This study and much of the other research on air pollution and the brain originates from the US, where the proportion of one major source of urban air pollution-the diesel-powered car-is low compared to the UK. (qz.com)
  • The study "is a step forward because it's allowing a better assessment of the particular contribution of the agent- smoking, UV, et cetera-toward the actual driving mutations," says James DeGregori , a cancer researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who was not involved with the study. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Purpose of this study is to analyze smoking profile and CO concentration on students. (jurnalrespirologi.org)
  • CBS/AFP - Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China quickly improves, a benchmark study showed Tuesday. (headlinehealth.com)
  • The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmoking adults in two Nigerian cities. (bvsalud.org)
  • The existence of these studies on secondhand smoke was completely unknown until the tobacco industry's internal documents were made public on the Internet in 1998. (prwatch.org)
  • Importantly, these residual substances can react, re-emit, and/or resuspend in an environment long after active smoking has ended. (almanac.com)
  • Passed in 1956, in direct response to what Fuller calls "the UK's greatest peacetime disaster," it restricted the use of dirty heating fuels and established "smoke-free" zones where only smokeless fuels could be burned. (nybooks.com)
  • In order to reduce your risk of heart attack or heart disease associated with the exposure to household air pollution, it's important that you improve your indoor air quality. (belmarrahealth.com)
  • The especially in well-insulated living environments with air combined effects of ambient and household air pollution conditioning and restricted ventilation. (who.int)
  • In the first, published about two years ago, children of smoking parents were tested for nicotine traces, and findings indicated that 70% are in fact exposed to passive smoking. (jpost.com)
  • The team also looked for traces of nicotine in the hair of children whose parents limited their smoking to the balcony or outdoors. (jpost.com)
  • Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2009 Dec;11(12):1458-66. (cdc.gov)
  • Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke. (bvsalud.org)
  • National Ambient Air Quality pollution through training, guidelines and smoking. (who.int)
  • 9 (0) considerations into different ex- ambient air pollution and 4.3 million isting and planned strategies. (who.int)
  • They completed questionnaires and were given portable pollution monitors for 48 hours to allow researchers to determine their exposure. (qz.com)
  • The researchers looked at 10,529 primary care patients who were prescribed sleeping pills between 2002 and 2007 and compared the health of each of them to at least two very similar patients without such prescriptions who were the same sex, ethnicity, marital status, smoking status, and had similar health conditions, alcohol use and BMI (which measures if a person is overweight). (stopcancerfund.org)
  • The impact of (fine particulate air pollution) on global life expectancy is comparable to that of smoking, more than 3 times that of alcohol use and unsafe water, more than 5 times that of transport injuries like car crashes, and more than 7 times that of HIV/AIDS," the report says. (headlinehealth.com)
  • How deadly is air pollution? (cnn.com)
  • Despite its flaws and halting implementation, the law heralded a new era of government action to clean up outdoor air, driven by the growing recognition that air pollution was more pervasive, more deadly, and more human-caused than had been assumed. (nybooks.com)
  • Tobacco farms accounted for the loss of around 5 per cent of forests in parts of Asia and Africa, it stated. (independent.co.uk)
  • For example, the entire continent of Africa receives less than $300,000 to tackle air pollution. (headlinehealth.com)
  • A 1985 meeting of the executive committee of the Tobacco Institute outlined plans to broaden the indoor air quality issue. (wikipedia.org)
  • You're probably well aware of the more widely researched health effects of secondhand smoke (i.e., "passive smoking") which has led to a patchwork of laws that ban indoor smoking in government buildings, hospitals, bars, restaurants, and public transportation. (almanac.com)
  • Fortunately, indoor air tobacco smoke inside the homes, air pollution poses pollution is a problem for which we know the solutions. (who.int)
  • Thirdhand smoke poses the greatest threat to infants and children, who inhale particles suspended in the air or ingest the residues when they touch and crawl on contaminated surfaces, then put their fingers into their mouths. (almanac.com)
  • More direct evidence that air pollution affects the developing brain comes from animal studies. (qz.com)
  • This led the authors to conclude that exposure to tobacco products negatively affects elastic properties of the fetal lung because 2 weeks of postnatal exposure was not thought to be enough to exert such an effect. (medscape.com)
  • A press release from the Tobacco Institute attacked the 1986 Surgeon General's report on second-hand smoke, saying that the Surgeon General had distorted the evidence and that Health and Human Services was suppressing contrary scientific viewpoints. (wikipedia.org)