• Pollutants from fireplaces and woodstoves with no dedicated outdoor air supply can be back-drafted from the chimney into the living space, particularly in weatherized homes [US Environmental Protection Agency 2012a]. (cdc.gov)
  • Air quality is influenced in British Columbia (BC) by numerous mountain ranges and valleys, which complicate atmospheric pollution dispersion and can lead to high concentrations of pollutants such as particulate matter from wood smoke (especially during stagnant atmospheric conditions/inversions). (wikipedia.org)
  • Dust, surfaces and the air of each vehicle cabin were sampled and analysed for residual tobacco smoke pollutants (also known as thirdhand smoke (THS)), and each car was inspected for visual and olfactory signs of tobacco use. (bmj.com)
  • The cabins of passenger cars are potentially important microenvironments for exposure to tobacco smoke pollutants. (bmj.com)
  • 1-5 In addition, car interiors provide relatively large surface areas with materials that may absorb and trap tobacco smoke pollutants (eg, upholstery, carpets, ceiling liners, air ventilation systems). (bmj.com)
  • As such, car cabins are particularly susceptible to becoming reservoirs of residual tobacco smoke pollutants, also known as thirdhand smoke (THS 6 ). (bmj.com)
  • Environmental disease may comprise of organic and chemical pollutants, including smoke from tabacco and wood sources. (referat.ru)
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), are ubiquitous environmental pollutants found in tobacco smoke, air pollution, and grilled foods. (escholarship.org)
  • To estimate long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollutants on an individual basis and to assess adverse health effects using a combination of air pollution measurement data, data from geographical information systems (GIS) and questionnaire data. (bmj.com)
  • PAHs are compounds that can be found in cigarette smoke, car exhaust, and industrial pollutants, and they have also been identified in charred foods. (cancercenterforhealing.com)
  • The clinician should consider the following possible sources of indoor air pollution when eliciting information on exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • A recent study published in PLoS ONE examined the associated risk between certain environmental exposures and mortality, including cardiovascular mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The researchers looked at the risk association between specific environmental exposures and mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Air pollution exposures contributed a significant burden of cardiovascular disease, similar to tobacco smoke…The study demonstrates that environmental risk factors are present and evaluable in rural, low-resource settings. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Conclusion: The authors conclude that it is necessary to recognize risk factors and intervene in the period of greatest vulnerability to the occurrence of harmful effects of environmental exposures, to prevent, delay the onset or modify the progression of lung disease throughout life and into adulthood. (saude.gov.br)
  • Environmental exposures and irritants can play a strong role in symptom exacerbations. (medscape.com)
  • The study, published today in Environmental Health Perspectives by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, is the first to connect secondhand smoke during pregnancy with epigenetic modifications to disease-related genes, measured at birth, which supports the idea that many adult diseases have their origins in environmental exposures - such as stress, poor nutrition, pollution or tobacco smoke - during early development. (eurekalert.org)
  • Research suggests that some genetic variants may only cause asthma when they are combined with specific environmental exposures, and otherwise may not be risk factors for asthma. (themedguru.com)
  • Early life exposures to tobacco smoke and air pollution have been linked to increased risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome. (escholarship.org)
  • influenzae(aRR 1.68 (95% CI 1.10- 2.57)) orMoraxella catarrhalis(aRR 1.42 (95% CI 1.03-1.97)) in infants.Early-life environmental exposures are associated with an increased prevalence of specific nasopharyngeal bacteria during infancy, which may predispose to LRTI. (edu.au)
  • Complementary to the " genome ," which is the complete set of an individual's genetic information, the "exposome" represents an individual's complete set of environmental exposures throughout their lifetime. (cdc.gov)
  • Coined in 2005, the " exposome " captures the variable and dynamic environmental exposures from the prenatal period onwards. (cdc.gov)
  • Environmental exposures have been shown to influence the incidence and severity of many chronic conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • Discovering environmental correlates of disease by using exposome-wide analyses coupled with genetically anchored tests, such as MR, to help determine causality can identify modifiable exposures and behaviors that may influence disease risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Travelers should be mindful of, and limit exposures to, outdoor and indoor air pollution and carbon monoxide ( Table 4-02 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Results from the Asthma Phenotypes in the Inner City (APIC) study, reported in 2016, pinpointed sensitivity to multiple allergens, poor lung function, allergic rhinitis and exposure to second-hand smoke as major factors associated with asthma severity in children. (nih.gov)
  • Although asthma cannot be cured at present, symptoms can be controlled with appropriate medical treatment, self-management education, and by avoiding exposure to environmental allergens and irritants that can trigger an attack ( 1,2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The topic is highly relevant because most studies on the interaction between allergens and air pollution regard outdoor environments and very few articles have been published on the possible allergen-pollutant relationship in indoor places. (ersjournals.com)
  • some studies have shown that indoor air pollution, particularly NO 2 , enhances the risk of asthma exacerbations in asthmatic children sensitised to dust mite allergens. (ersjournals.com)
  • Their exposure to environmental factors, including pollution, allergens, and the like have increased the likelihood for many kids to develop allergies and asthma. (forumhealthmodesto.com)
  • Can dog allergen alone, if combined with indoor pollution, be responsible for asthma in children? (ersjournals.com)
  • 1 ] showing the increasing risk of incident asthma in a high-risk birth cohort after early co-exposure to dog allergen (Can f 1) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) or environmental tobacco smoke. (ersjournals.com)
  • 1 ] studied the effects of combined exposure to Can f 1 and indoor pollution, and found an increasing risk of incident asthma. (ersjournals.com)
  • In conclusion, we think that the relationship between dog ownership and air pollution in enhancing symptomatic responses in children with asthma may be somewhat attributable to the greater amounts of endotoxins associated with the presence of a dog at home. (ersjournals.com)
  • A non-significant increased risk of childhood asthma was associated with self-reported family history of asthma, childhood environmental tobacco smoke exposure, and air pollution. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The risks for developing asthma are still uncertain, but depend on a complex interaction of hereditary and environmental factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Asthma is caused by environmental and genetic factors, which can influence how severe asthma is and how well it responds to medication. (themedguru.com)
  • 1. Environmental tobacco smoke, especially maternal cigarette smoking, is associated with high risk of asthma prevalence and asthma morbidity, wheeze, and respiratory infections. (themedguru.com)
  • 2. Poor air quality, from traffic pollution or high ozone levels, has been repeatedly associated with increased asthma morbidity and has a suggested association with asthma development that needs further research. (themedguru.com)
  • Inhaling any kind of smoke, and that includes cigarette smoke and car fumes can be extremely irritating for a child with asthma. (forumhealthmodesto.com)
  • He has an academic background in Medicine with board-certifications in Internal Medicine , Occupational and Environmental Medicine , and received an MPH and a PhD in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. (isglobal.org)
  • Objective: To review in the literature the environmental problems in early life that impact the respiratory health of adults. (saude.gov.br)
  • Reported by: Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Br, Div of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • Associations between air pollution concentrations at birth address and 1-year and 2-year incidences of respiratory symptoms were analysed. (bmj.com)
  • Indoor air pollution (IAP) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure may influence nasopharyngeal carriage of bacterial species and development of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI). (edu.au)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of adverse respiratory health outcomes among adolescents living in a known air pollution hotspot in South Africa. (le.ac.uk)
  • Half (52%) of the adolescents who had respiratory illness were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke in the dwelling. (le.ac.uk)
  • Many community pharmacies provide health-related literature about respiratory disease and smoking cessation. (ashp.org)
  • Evidence shows persistent disparities in secondhand smoke exposure by ethnicity, education, and income level. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • 1 In this paper, Enstrom and Kabat used a longitudinal cohort collected by the American Cancer Society beginning in 1959 (the CPS-I dataset, Cancer Prevention Study) to conclude that secondhand smoke exposure does not increase the risk of lung cancer and heart disease. (bmj.com)
  • They also need to learn self-management skills and practice evidence-based interventions that reduce environmental risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) was one of the leading risk factors for deaths globally in 2019, accounting for approximately 1.3 million deaths and contributing to 37 million Disability-Adjusted life years (DALYs), with 11.2% of the burden in children under the age of 5 years. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • The objective of the study was evaluation of the prevalence of cigarette smoking among the adult population of the Lublin Region, and investigation of the relationship between nicotinism and respondents` place of residence, and other selected socio-economic factors. (aaem.pl)
  • Ahrens W, Jockel KH, Patzak W, Elsner G: Alcohol, smoking and occupational factors in cancer of larynx: a case control study. (aaem.pl)
  • environmental factors [ 2,3 ]. (who.int)
  • Different environmental factors such as air pollution may be predictive of people's chances of having certain cardiovascular diseases. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Environmental factors play a role in health, with research finding that people living in certain areas have a higher risk for health problems and mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Multiple factors such as air pollution and fuel-burning methods can impact cardiovascular and all-cause mortality risk at varying degrees, according to a new study. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • One area of particular interest is environmental factors that contribute to cardiovascular-related mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Researchers found that the risk for cardiovascular-related death is linked to many factors, including ambient air and household air pollution. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Researchers are still working to discover what environmental factors pose the most risk to heart health and how people can reduce their risk. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The study notes the importance of looking at and addressing environmental risk factors related to cardiovascular health. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • It is likely that reducing risk and improving these environmental factors will involve the work of multiple people and groups. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • David Pimentel a professor of ecology at Cornell stated and assumes that "Most of the increase in disease is due to numerous environmental factors, including infectious microbes, pollution by chemicals and biological wastes and shortages of food and nutrients. (referat.ru)
  • Infectious disease and environmental factors are to blame for more than 75% of all deaths in the world. (referat.ru)
  • In 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 24 % of healthy life years (LYs) lost and 23 % of premature mortality were related to environmental factors [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A subset of these factors are environmental health hazards that have been linked to various acute and chronic diseases, such as carbon monoxide poisoning at a carboxyhemoglobin (CoHB) level of at least 10 % [ 2 ] and metabolic or cardiovascular disorders. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Cancer-related deaths are majorly associated with risk factors including excessive smoking, intake of tobacco, and exposure to environmental pollution and predispositions such as genetic mutations. (grandviewresearch.com)
  • This includes eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and avoiding exposure to known risk factors for cancer, such as tobacco smoke and excessive alcohol consumption. (lustire.com)
  • Some environmental and genetic factors have been confirmed by further research, while others have not been. (themedguru.com)
  • His research interests cover environmental, occupational and behavioural risk and preventive factors of cancer for evidence-informed global cancer control in support of achieving the goals of the SDG 2030 agenda, and particularly SDG 3, Health, with a focus on non-communicable diseases. (isglobal.org)
  • In Africa, an estimated 28% of all premature deaths are attributed to environmental factors.2 With weak health care systems and services, stronger intersectoral action to create healthier environments is paramount. (who.int)
  • Recognizing the importance of environmental factors as determinants of human health, African ministers of health and environment adopted the Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa3 in 2008. (who.int)
  • Environmental factors such as lifestyle, diet, and exposure to toxins and chemical agents, can play an important role in our health. (cdc.gov)
  • Factors studied in the exposome extend from social differences and inequalities to behavioral factors such as tobacco smoking and physical activity. (cdc.gov)
  • Inspired by the concept of genome-wide association study (GWAS), which scans the entire genome to identify genes associated with a particular trait or disease, EWAS takes an untargeted, agnostic, and exploratory approach to identifying available environmental factors associated with a particular trait or disease. (cdc.gov)
  • By broadening the search space to a wide array of environmental traits, the EWAS approach represents a promising technique for identifying novel factors in a systematic fashion, an approach that may aid in the development of disease prevention and intervention tactics. (cdc.gov)
  • They also identified factors that have been previously unexplored in association with psychotic experience, such as nitrogen dioxide air pollution. (cdc.gov)
  • Age-adjusted mortality from cancer is steadily increasing among Native Americans, raising concern about environmental causes. (ncuih.org)
  • Abuse of tobacco can be shown to be the most important contributor to cancer mortality among Native Americans. (ncuih.org)
  • Air pollution is associated with premature mortality and a wide spectrum of diseases. (mdpi.com)
  • Those in areas of high air pollution were 17% more likely to experience cardiovascular mortality and 20% more likely to experience all-cause mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Methods: Ambient air quality data from 2005 to 2019 for the two areas, Secunda and eMbalenhle, in the Highveld Air Pollution Priority Area in Mpumalanga province, South Africa were gathered and compared against national ambient air pollution standards and the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines. (le.ac.uk)
  • In addition, products like cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes also contribute significantly to the global build-up of plastic pollution, WHO warned. (rte.ie)
  • There is increasing appreciation of the proportion of the health burden that is attributed to modifiable population exposure to environmental health hazards. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We use MCDA to evaluate and compare the impact of interventions to reduce the health burden associated with four environmental health hazards and rank them in terms of their overall performance across several criteria. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Government policies on existing interventions can help to manage the health burden caused by environmental health hazards by reducing exposure to such hazards. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ABSTRACT Effect of smoking and environmental noise on hearing impairment was investigated in 440 people aged 21-50 years living in Beirut. (who.int)
  • See https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/surveillance/systems-tools/global-youth-tobacco-survey . (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Malnutrition increases vulnerability to pollution-related illnesses and diseases such as diarrhea. (referat.ru)
  • And that "this change combined with population growth and environmental degradation, will probably intensify world malnutrition and increases in other diseases as well. (referat.ru)
  • diseases and pollution-related illnesses that in turn effect our standard of living. (referat.ru)
  • There is a strong connection between human, environmental and animal health, which underpins the need to adopt the One Health approach to prevent emergent and recurrent diseases. (who.int)
  • Meanwhile, air pollution, tobacco smoke and chemicals are driving the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). (who.int)
  • Cigarette smoking significantly increases the risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases as well as premature death. (cdc.gov)
  • Gilmore A, Pomerleau J, McKee M, Rose R, Haerpfer CW, Rotman D, Tumanov S: Prevalence of smoking in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union: results from the living conditions, lifestyle and health study. (aaem.pl)
  • Whereas, rising tobacco and alcohol consumption is boosting the prevalence of liver tumor across the globe. (grandviewresearch.com)
  • THS levels were not as low as those found in private cars of non-smokers with in-car smoking bans. (bmj.com)
  • Matt et al 7 and Fortmann et al 8 found in used private cars offered for sale, nicotine levels in dust, on surfaces and in the air of smokers' cars were correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked in the car by the primary driver. (bmj.com)
  • Since smoking cessation efforts in the United States in the past few decades have been quite successful, lung cancer is now very often a disease of former smokers. (healthywomen.org)
  • An estimated 72 to 80 percent of lung cancer cases occur in tobacco smokers. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Data under varying conditions were collected and analyzed, such as doors or windows or mechanical ventilation devices being opened, rooms cramped with people and smoking. (who.int)
  • Inaccuracies in data collection regarding socioeconomic status, as well as using participants' fuel use and ventilation levels to examine air pollution exposure indirectly may have affected the results. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Usually, the most effective way to improve indoor air quality is to control the source of pollution, and the other methods are proper ventilation and the use of air cleaners ( Syed, 2012: p. 14 ). (scirp.org)
  • However, children's environmental health remained an area of high concern as evidenced in the numerous examples given of risks to children's health in different countries. (who.int)
  • In addressing environmental risks to children's health and the creation of healthier environments for children, participants shared many examples of effective policies, legislative measures, institutional mechanisms, best practices in interventions, and promising initiatives on which to build. (who.int)
  • Research also shows that the risks for CHD from passive smoking are essentially indistinguishable from active smoking. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Environmental risks account for a large fraction of the burden of disease. (who.int)
  • Toxic waste dumps, mining activities, paper mills, military activities, agricultural chemicals, and urban pollution are common sources of carcinogen exposure on reservations and among the urban poor. (ncuih.org)
  • Its principal focus areas were safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, air pollution and clean energy, chemicals and wastes, climate change, vector control and health in the workplace. (who.int)
  • HCAs are formed when amino acids and other substances in meat react at high temperatures, while PAHs are formed when fat and juices from meat drip onto an open flame or hot surface, causing smoke that contains these harmful chemicals to rise up and be deposited on the food being cooked. (cancercenterforhealing.com)
  • Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 different chemicals, 60 of which are proven carcinogens, and hundreds of others increase the cancer-causing power of carcinogens. (healthywomen.org)
  • 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)
  • Secondhand smoke risk. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Smoking may be a risk factor for high- for noise-induced HL could be smoking. (who.int)
  • Rationale Evidence has suggested that exposure to environmental or microbial biodiversity in early life may impact subsequent lung function and allergic disease risk. (bmj.com)
  • Although the odds of increased recurrent wheezing are not statistically significantly different from one, results suggest that exposure to air pollution including NO 2 , particularly in combination with exposure to ETS, increases the risk of recurrent wheezing in children. (bmj.com)
  • Nearly a quarter of pregnant women say they've been around secondhand smoke - in their homes, at work, around a friend or relative - which, according to new research, is linked to epigenetic changes - meaning changes to how genes are regulated rather than changes to the genetic code itself - in babies that could raise the risk of developmental disorders and cancer. (eurekalert.org)
  • This methodology uses multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA), a method that can be applied to risk prioritisation for environmental public health (EPH) hazard interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Household cooking using solid fuels poses the greatest risk after alcohol, tobacco, and high blood pressure. (scirp.org)
  • The more you smoke and the longer you smoke, the greater your risk of lung cancer. (healthywomen.org)
  • But if you stop smoking, the risk decreases steadily each year as abnormal cells are replaced by normal ones. (healthywomen.org)
  • However, the risk never completely returns to the same risk as that of people who never smoked. (healthywomen.org)
  • Conversely, those with preexisting heart and lung disease, children, and older adults have an increased risk for adverse health effects from even short-term exposure to air pollution. (cdc.gov)
  • The negative health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 500,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • High levels of air pollution and extreme hot and cold temperatures have been linked to increases in heart disease and deaths from heart attacks. (cdc.gov)
  • Even though deaths from such practices are relatively uncommon in the developed countries, indoor air pollution may still have significant health effects that many people might not be aware of ( McGranahan & Murray, 2012: p. 142 ). (scirp.org)
  • Nearly a quarter of all deaths in Africa are reportedly due to environmental causes, including the impacts of climate change. (who.int)
  • While tobacco's health impacts have been well documented for decades - with smoking still causing more than eight million deaths worldwide every year - the report focuses on its broader environmental consequences. (rte.ie)
  • 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)
  • Exposure to secondhand smoke can lead to lung cancer, acute and chronic coronary heart disease (CHD), and eye and nasal irritation in adults. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Lung cancer occurs most often in people over 50 who have a long history of cigarette smoking. (healthywomen.org)
  • While genetic mutations may play a role, we know that smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer-about 80 percent of lung cancers are thought to be the result of smoking, according to the American Lung Association. (healthywomen.org)
  • 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)
  • The industry is responsible for the loss of some 600 million trees each year - or 5% of global deforestation - while tobacco growing and production uses 200,000 hectares of land and 22 billion tonnes of water annually, the report found. (rte.ie)
  • Though more research on the harm profile of second aerosol is needed, it is clear that these aerosols should be included in comprehensive smoke-free legislation in the same way as secondhand smoke. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • An important recent consideration is the nearly complete replacement of the TEOM (Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance) pollution measurement instruments once relied on by BC with newer SHARP FEM (Federal Equivalency Method) monitors. (wikipedia.org)
  • The chemistry of environmental tobacco smoke : composition and measurement / M. R. Guerin, R. A. Jenkins, B. A. Tomkins. (who.int)
  • Introduction Some car rental companies in California and other states in the USA have established non-smoking policies for their vehicles. (bmj.com)
  • Descriptive analysis of internal tobacco industry documents retrieved from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, University of California, San Francisco. (bmj.com)
  • Meeting the requirements for financial disclosure established by the journal did not provide the reader with a full picture of the tobacco industry's involvement with the study authors. (bmj.com)
  • The article included a lengthy statement of funding sources and competing interests, listing as one of its sponsors the tobacco industry's Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR). (bmj.com)
  • At the same time the processing and transportation of tobacco account for a significant share of global greenhouse gas emissions - with the equivalent of one-fifth of the global airline industry's carbon footprint. (rte.ie)
  • The WHO also called for governments to immediately halt the some $500 billion in subsidies the tobacco industry receives each year, and also urged them to stop allowing taxpayers to foot the bill for cleaning up the industry's mess. (rte.ie)
  • The updated strategy that seeks to revitalize action on environmental determinants of human health and contribute to sustainable development, mainly updates key milestones and targets in light of recent developments, within the scope of the previous strategic document. (who.int)
  • The Declaration is an overarching policy framework within which Member States of the Region can coherently address environmental determinants of human health and ecosystem integrity. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • Meta-analyses of studies investigating the impact of maternal environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on birth weight have not produced robust findings. (nih.gov)
  • Findings A majority of putative non-smoker cars had nicotine in dust, on surfaces, in air and other signs of tobacco use. (bmj.com)
  • These findings are another example of how simply requiring authors to disclose financial ties with the tobacco industry may not be adequate to give readers (and reviewers) a full picture of the author's relationship with the tobacco industry. (bmj.com)
  • These findings question the adequacy of current journal policies regarding competing interest disclosures and the acceptability of tobacco industry funding for academic research. (bmj.com)
  • 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)
  • The report, "Tobacco: poisoning our planet", looks at the impacts of the whole cycle, from the growth of plants to the manufacturing of tobacco products, to consumption and waste. (rte.ie)
  • 2.5 Kg) [OR 1.23 (95% CI, 0.96 to 1.58) and premature birth [OR 1.21 (95% CI, 0.96 to 1.51)], whilst the impacts of maternal smoking were greater and statistically significant. (nih.gov)
  • 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)
  • Cigarette smoking is the strongest modifiable factor, which shortens the life span and deteriorates the quality of life. (aaem.pl)
  • They shared information on best practices, identified means of overcoming major constraints and obstacles to success, highlighted essential policy interventions and action strategies, examined the role of the health and other sectors in improving children's environmental health, and made recommendations to WHO and the Healthy Environments for Children Alliance to take forward work in this area. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2021 (RGTE) presents smoke-free legislation information for 195 countries and as of 2020, 1.8 billion people in 67 countries are covered by complete smoke-free indoor public places, workplaces, and public transport. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • The remaining 56 countries (29%) fail to comprehensively protect people from secondhand smoke by having complete absence of or minimal smoking bans. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Noorhassim and Rampal [9] reported a mul- common, mostly due to presbyacousis as a tiplicative association between occupational normal process of ageing, HL among young noise, age and smoking, a Japanese team people is less common and more frequently reported that smoking was not associated caused by a combination of genetic and with low-frequency hearing loss [ 10 ]. (who.int)
  • Smoking is a widespread addiction among on hearing may compound the effects of young people and the damage caused by in- exposure to occupational noise. (who.int)
  • The few reports regarding in specific places, and mainly targeted the relationship between smoking and HL elderly people subjected to occupational, remain equivocal. (who.int)
  • 4.3 million people die annually from exposure to household air pollution. (scirp.org)
  • further observed that more people die from smoke from household fires than from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. (scirp.org)
  • But they also show that the country has a long way to go in encouraging healthy lifestyles and cleaning up pollution to help people avoid cancers and chronic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. (nhpr.org)
  • Tobacco is not only poisoning people, it's poisoning our planet. (rte.ie)
  • however, the condition can occur in people who have never smoked. (medlineplus.gov)
  • 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)
  • Smoking cigarettes in the small enclosed space of a car cabin can lead to high levels of secondhand smoke (SHS) in the air and to SHS exposure among passengers. (bmj.com)
  • Farmers who handle tobacco leaves all day consume the equivalent of 50 cigarettes worth of nicotine a day, Dr Krech said. (rte.ie)
  • Stressing that there is no evidence filters provide any proven health benefits over smoking non-filtered cigarettes, the UN agency urged policy makers worldwide to consider banning them. (rte.ie)
  • The content in this section focuses on the above potential sources of indoor air pollution. (cdc.gov)
  • Background pollution occurs in areas not directly affected by pollution sources. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main sources of environmental noise and that nonsmoking participants who are traffic, industry, construction, public lived with a smoker were almost twice as works and the neighbourhood. (who.int)
  • Endotoxin exposure varies from person to person and can come from several environmental sources, including environmental tobacco smoke, dogs, and farms. (themedguru.com)
  • Heating and cooking appliances and environmental tobacco smoke are the most important indoor sources of pollution in UK homes, and that's before the effects of external air quality problems comes into play. (nuaire.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • We therefore systematically investigated this issue in a genetic diabetic model subjected to air pollution exposure along with ICV treatment of IKK2 inhibitor. (deepdyve.com)
  • Higher environmental concentrations may trigger breathing problems in exposed asthmatics. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 70 of these compounds are carcinogens, which has led the US Environmental Protection Agency and the International Agency for Research on Cancer to classify SHS as a group A and group 1 carcinogen, respectively, indicating the most hazardous cancer-causing compounds. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Repeated exposure to carcinogens, such as tobacco smoke, causes the mutations. (healthywomen.org)
  • Aromatic amines (AAs) such as o-toluidine, 2-aminonaphthalene and 4-aminobiphenyl are found in cigarette smoke and are well-established human bladder carcinogens presumably acting via the formation of DNA adducts. (cdc.gov)
  • Additional environmental and social costs of the industry include soil depletion, high levels of pesticide use and child labour, the study said. (independent.co.uk)
  • While these 67 countries (34%) show best practice levels in comprehensive smoke-free bans, there are still 37% of countries, and 38% of the world population, with partial smoke-free ban environments. (tobaccoatlas.org)
  • Conclusions Existing policies and practices were successful in lowering THS pollution levels in non-smoker cars compared with smoker cars. (bmj.com)
  • Even low levels of smoke from secondhand exposure affect epigenetic marks in disease-related pathways. (eurekalert.org)
  • During the first trimester, all had a concentration of cotinine - a nicotine byproduct - in their blood consistent with low levels of smoke exposure, ranging from essentially none to levels consistent with secondhand smoke. (eurekalert.org)
  • Tobacco farms accounted for the loss of around 5 per cent of forests in parts of Asia and Africa, it stated. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Libreville Declaration on health and environment was adopted in 2008 to jointly address health and environmental issues in Africa. (who.int)