Smoking - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Smoking tobacco and cigarettes has long been associated with lung cancer and other respiratory conditions such as COPD. Since this link has become common knowledge, there has extensive programs to help people quit smoking, as well as political campaigns to ban the advertisement of cigarettes. Recently, wider consequences of smoking have been discovered including reduced fertility in males, damage to unborn fetuses in pregnant women and a range of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year, with around a third due to cancers.
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PubMed Articles
Abstract Significance: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is predominantly a tobacco smoke-triggered disease with features of chronic low-grade systemic inflammation and aging (inflammaging)...
PURPOSE: Rural US adults have increased risk of poor outcomes after cancer, including increased cancer mortality. Rural-urban differences in health behaviors have been identified in the general popula...
Aim: We assessed the relationship between the level of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and cardiovascular risk factors in Korean adults.Methods: We reviewed 1,561 patients with cardiovascu...
Prospective study of restless legs syndrome and risk of erectile dysfunction.
In our previous cross-sectional study, we found that restless legs syndrome (RLS) was associated with erectile dysfunction (ED). Thus, we conducted a prospective study to examine whether RLS was assoc...
Prior investigations identified an association between low-level blood arsenic (As) and bladder cancer risk among Tunisian men but questions remain regarding confounding by cadmium (Cd), a well-establ...
Non-Cigarette Tobacco and the Lung.
Cigarette smoking is known to cause a wide range of damaging health outcomes; however, the effects of non-cigarette tobacco products are either unknown or perceived as less harmful than cigarettes. Sm...
BACKGROUND: Despite the low prevalence of daily smokers in Sweden, children are still being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), primarily by their smoking parents. A prospective intervention...
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking, hazardous drinking and physical inactivity during adolescence are risk factors that are associated with poorer health in adulthood. The identification of subgroups of youn...
Oral cancer examinations among smokers and moderate-heavy drinkers, United States, 2008.
OBJECTIVES: Smoking and moderate-heavy alcohol consumption are primary risk factors for oral cancer. This report uses national data to test whether adults with these risk factors received oral cancer...
Disordered Toll-like receptor 2 responses in the pathogenesis of pulmonary sarcoidosis.
We hypothesized that the granulomatous disorder sarcoidosis is not caused by a single pathogen, but rather results from abnormal responses of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) to conserved bacterial elements...
News Articles
Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Daughter's Risk Of Gestational Diabetes And Obesity
Women who smoke while pregnant are at a higher risk of having daughters who become obese and/or develop gestational diabetes, according to a new study published in Diabetologia. The fact that smoking...
The Interactive Effects On Neurocognition Of Alcohol Consumption, Smoking And Age
Treatment for alcohol use disorders works best if the patient actively understands and incorporates the interventions provided in the clinic. Multiple factors can influence both the type and degree of...
Scotland: 'Fairer and faster' IVF access limited to non-obese, non-smoking, teetotalers
The Scottish government has approved criteria which include new restrictions on access to state-funded IVF but which also aim to end the 'postcode lottery' faced by many couples with fertility problem...
Up in Smoke: Reasons to Kick Your Habit
In recent years, general attitudes towards smoking have changed a great deal. Increased awareness of smoking’s effects on your health and government legislation have seen cigarettes and accompanying...
Do E-Cigarettes Still Cause Health Problems?
A New Jersey woman says smoking e-cigarettes caused her an unexpected health problem.
Spanish Smoking Relapse Prevention
Researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida have evaluated how Florida health care and social service agencies distribute "Libres para Siempre" ("Forever Free®"), a Spa...
Job Stress, How Fatty Acids Are Metabolised In The Body And Associated Heart Disease Risk
Spanish researchers have studied how job stress affects cardiovascular health. The results, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that...
Study examines effects of smoking on cognitive functioning in AD individuals
Treatment for alcohol use disorders works best if the patient actively understands and incorporates the interventions provided in the clinic.
The Lap Band Surgery Center: Lap Band Surgery May Improve Employment Prospects
Whether employers admit it or not, obese people may find discrimination in the workplace because of their size, as alluded to in a January 26, 2013 article in USA Today (“Do Penalties For Smokers an...
Control of Heart Risks May Vary Among Outpatient Practices
FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Management of heart disease risk factors -- such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking -- varies significantly among outpatient practices in the Unite...
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Companies
Aradigm Corporation and Grifols S.A.
Aradigm is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of drugs delivered by inhalation for the prevention and treatment of sever...
Each of ENT and Allergy Associatesâ 36 clinical locations provides access to a full complement of services, including General Adult and Pediatric ENT, Voice and Swallowing, F...
Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc.
Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc. is a development stage pharmaceutical company focused on treating a broad range of addictions and obesity where the major clinical challenge is a li...
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation
Through charitable grant making, the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation LLC, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, promotes Anthemâ...
Founded in 1998, 22nd Century Limited, LLC (22nd Century) is a plant biotechnology company whose proprietary technology allows for the level of nicotine (and other nicotinic alkal...
Through charitable grant making, the Empire BlueCross Foundation (and the Empire BlueCross BlueShield Foundation), trade names of the Anthem Blue Cross Foundation L.L.C., independ...
The WellPoint Foundation is the philanthropic arm of WellPoint, Inc. and through charitable contributions and programs, the Foundation promotes the inherent commitment of WellPoin...
Our lead product is a vaccine currently called HI-164OV. It works by controlling bacterial colonisation of airways damaged by inhaled toxins. It has been developed to treat patients with Chronic O...
Aradigm is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a portfolio of drugs delivered by inhalation for the treatment of sever...
ENT and Allergy Associates LLP
Each of ENT and Allergy Associatesâ 36 clinical locations provides access to a full complement of services, including General Adult and Pediatric ENT, Voice and Swallowing, F...
Clinical Trials
A Pilot Study of the Neural Correlates of Treatment Effect on Nicotine Craving
The purpose of this study is to gather pilot data to determine feasibility of and guide the development of a larger clinical trial investigating the effects of topiramate as an adjunct to...
Janssen - Glucose Regulation/Risp/Olanz
Abnormalities in peripheral glucose regulation and type 2 diabetes can occur more commonly in individuals with schizophrenia than in healthy subjects or in other psychiatric conditions. A...
Several studies have shown that persons with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have poor general health and a higher risk of heart attack and bone loss (osteoporosis) compared to the gene...
Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco
Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is part...
Selenium Supplementation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients
Does an oral selenium supplement increase blood levels of antioxidants in patients with established, smoking-related lung disease? Members of our study group recently discovered that elev...
Bone Density and Serum Testosterone in Male Methadone Maintained Patients
This is a pilot study designed to answer the question " Do men who are receiving methadone maintenance therapy have lower spinal bone densities compared with age-matched controls who are n...
In this randomised, cross-over, controlled study, a total of 84 subjects will be included: 12 healthy non-smoking volunteers; 12 current smokers; 30 patients with mild steroid-naïve asthm...
Biomarkers of iNOS Activity in COPD, Asthma, Healthy Control
This pilot study will measure the baseline levels and the intra- and inter-subject variability of exhaled (alveolar and bronchial) and nasal NO in smoking subjects with mild and moderate C...
Researching the Youth Smoking Experience
The primary hypothesis of this pilot study is that dependence can be prevented in adolescents who smoke, but who are not yet dependent. With this study, we seek to develop and test the fe...
Chinese Community Smoking Cessation Project
The study has two objectives/aims: Aim 1: To test the efficacy of the intervention among adult smokers with cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease and diabetes mellitus related illness...
Videos
Tobaccoland: Anti-Smoking Rally (VICE on HBO Ep. #7 Extended)
Vice Correspondent Thomas Morton attends an anti-tobacco Human Rights Day in Jakarta, Indonesia where he tries to kick his addiction. #VICEonHBO VICE Show Hu...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Smoking
Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco.
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
Physiological and psychological symptoms associated with withdrawal from the use of a drug after prolonged administration or habituation. The concept includes withdrawal from smoking or drinking, as well as withdrawal from an administered drug.
Thromboangiitis Obliterans
A non-atherosclerotic, inflammatory thrombotic disease that commonly involves small and medium-sized arteries or veins in the extremities. It is characterized by occlusive THROMBOSIS and FIBROSIS in the vascular wall leading to digital and limb ISCHEMIA and ulcerations. Thromboangiitis obliterans is highly associated with tobacco smoking.
Tobacco
A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain NICOTINE and other biologically active chemicals; its dried leaves are used for SMOKING.
Trinidad And Tobago
An independent state in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, north of Venezuela, comprising the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Its capital is Port of Spain. Both islands were discovered by Columbus in 1498. The Spanish, English, Dutch, and French figure in their history over four centuries. Trinidad and Tobago united in 1898 and were made part of the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago in 1899. The colony became an independent state in 1962. Trinidad was so named by Columbus either because he arrived on Trinity Sunday or because three mountain peaks suggested the Holy Trinity. Tobago was given the name by Columbus from the Haitian tambaku, pipe, from the natives' habit of smoking tobacco leaves. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1228, 1216 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p555, 547)
