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Volume 1 (2006), Issue 8 (August)

1. Milestones in the natural course of onset of cigarette use among adolescents.
   CMAJ, 175(3): 255-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Sex differences in the clinical presentation and management of airflow obstruction.
   Eur Respir J, 28(2): 319-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Pleasure or pain? A profile of smokers in Northern England.
   Public Health, 120(8): 760-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Predictors of COPD symptoms: does the sex of the patient matter?
   Eur Respir J, 28(2): 311-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Increased oxidative stress in asymptomatic current chronic smokers and GOLD stage 0 COPD.
   Respir Res, 7: 69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Effect of smoking on exhaled nitric oxide and flow-independent nitric oxide exchange parameters.
   Eur Respir J, 28(2): 339-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Smoking rates and the state of smoking interventions for children and adolescents with chronic illness.
   Pediatrics, 118(2): e471-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. The influence of current and former smoking on gingival bleeding: the Hisayama study.
   J Periodontol, 77(8): 1430-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Does maternal smoking during pregnancy have a direct effect on future offspring obesity? Evidence from a prospective birth cohort study.
   Am J Epidemiol, 164(4): 317-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Association between parental and individual psychiatric/substance use disorders and smoking stages among Puerto Rican adolescents.
    Drug Alcohol Depend, 84(2): 144-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Pilot study of mucosal genetic differences in early smokers and nonsmokers.
    Laryngoscope, 116(8): 1375-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Cigarette smoke extract enhances oxytocin-induced rhythmic contractions of rat and human preterm myometrium.
    Reproduction, 132(2): 343-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Cigarette smoking and liver cancer risk: an evaluation based on a systematic review of epidemiologic evidence among Japanese.
    Jpn J Clin Oncol, 36(7): 445-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Cigarette smoking, von Hippel-Lindau gene mutations and sporadic renal cell carcinoma.
    Br J Cancer, 95(3): 374-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Which sociodemographic factors are important on smoking behaviour of high school students? The contribution of classification and regression tree methodology in a broad epidemiological survey.
    Postgrad Med J, 82(970): 532-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease and its association with smoking in a population-based study in Beijing, China.
    J Vasc Surg, 44(2): 333-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Protective effects of plasma carotenoids on the risk of bladder cancer.
    J Urol, 176(3): 1192-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and Hodgkin's lymphoma: a European multi-centre case-control study (EPILYMPH).
    Br J Cancer, 95(3): 378-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Monitoring and decreasing public smoking among youth.
    Behav Modif, 30(5): 681-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Cigarette smoking saturates brain alpha 4 beta 2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
    Arch Gen Psychiatry, 63(8): 907-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Contingency management for smoking cessation in adolescent smokers.
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 14(3): 306-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Effect of nicotine on negative affect among more impulsive smokers.
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 14(3): 287-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Clusterin decreases oxidative stress in lung fibroblasts exposed to cigarette smoke.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 174(4): 393-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Cigarette yields and human exposure: a comparison of alternative testing regimens.
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 15(8): 1495-501. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Combined analysis of r-1,t-2,3,c-4-tetrahydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol in smokers' plasma.
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 15(8): 1490-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Tobacco use in adult long-term survivors of retinoblastoma.
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 15(8): 1464-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Smokers: risks and complications in abdominal dermolipectomy.
    Aesthetic Plast Surg, 30(4): 422-4; discussion 425. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. IGHMBP2 Thr671Ala polymorphism might be a modifier for the effects of cigarette smoking and PAH-DNA adducts to breast cancer risk.
    Breast Cancer Res Treat, 99(1): 1-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. A century of smoke.
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol, 100(5): 465-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Higher urine 1-hydroxy pyrene glucuronide (1-OHPG) is associated with tobacco smoke exposure and drinking maté in healthy subjects from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
    BMC Cancer, 6: 139. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Trends in smoking among Hispanic women in California: Relationship to English language use.
    Am J Prev Med, 31(3): 257-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Tobacco denormalization and industry beliefs among smokers from four countries.
    Am J Prev Med, 31(3): 225-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Smoking interacts with genetic risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis among older Caucasian women.
    Ann Rheum Dis, 65(9): 1163-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and school performance at age 15.
    Epidemiology, 17(5): 524-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. A longitudinal study of the influence of smoking on the onset of obesity at a telecommunications company in Japan.
    Prev Med, 43(2): 107-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Individual and family household smoking habits as risk factors for wheezing among adolescents.
    Prev Med, 43(2): 98-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Changes in the "stages of change" as outcome measures of a smoking cessation intervention: a randomized controlled trial.
    Prev Med, 43(2): 101-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Are private school students more likely to smoke than public school students in China?
    Prev Med, 43(2): 117-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Waterpipe smoking among American military recruits.
    Prev Med, 43(2): 92-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Hospitalized smokers: compliance with a nonsmoking policy and its predictors.
    Prev Med, 43(2): 113-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Sensitive biomarker of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): urinary 1-hydroxyprene glucuronide in relation to smoking and low ambient levels of exposure.
    Biomarkers, 11(4): 306-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. The activity of the immunoregulatory enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is decreased in smokers.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 145(3): 469-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Different inflammatory cell pattern and macrophage phenotype in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, smokers and non-smokers.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 145(3): 428-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Influence of smoking on osseointegrated implant failure: a meta-analysis.
    Clin Oral Implants Res, 17(4): 473-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Health information and risk behaviors among lesbian, gay, and bisexual college students.
    J Am Acad Nurse Pract, 18(8): 374-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Deprivation and trends in blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index and smoking among participants of a UK primary care-based cardiovascular risk factor screening programme: both narrowing and widening in cardiovascular risk factor inequalities.
    Heart, 92(9): 1198-206. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Cigarette smoking and overweight/obesity among individuals with serious mental illnesses: a preventive perspective.
    Harv Rev Psychiatry, 14(4): 212-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Prenatal marijuana exposure contributes to the prediction of marijuana use at age 14.
    Addiction, 101(9): 1313-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Preventing tobacco and drug use among Thai high school students through life skills training.
    Nurs Health Sci, 8(3): 164-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. CFH gene variant, Y402H, and smoking, body mass index, environmental associations with advanced age-related macular degeneration.
    Hum Hered, 61(3): 157-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Serum TSH levels in smokers and non-smokers. The 5th Tromsø study.
    Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes, 114(7): 343-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Smoking may affect the alveolar process dimensions and radiographic bone density in maxillary extraction sites: a prospective study in humans.
    J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 64(9): 1359-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Cigarette smoke-induced Egr-1 upregulates proinflammatory cytokines in pulmonary epithelial cells.
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol, 35(3): 314-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. State of the art. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, inflammation, and lung cancer.
    Proc Am Thorac Soc, 3(6): 535-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Single-dose pharmacokinetics of varenicline, a selective nicotinic receptor partial agonist, in healthy smokers and nonsmokers.
    J Clin Pharmacol, 46(9): 991-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Smoking and education: Do psychosocial variables explain the relationship between education and smoking behavior?
    Nicotine Tob Res, 8(4): 565-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Salivary cotinine concentration versus self-reported cigarette smoking: Three patterns of inconsistency in adolescence.
    Nicotine Tob Res, 8(4): 525-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Smoking and mental health problems in treatment-seeking university students.
    Nicotine Tob Res, 8(4): 519-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Couple dynamics during women's tobacco reduction in pregnancy and postpartum.
    Nicotine Tob Res, 8(4): 499-509. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Tobacco use and risk of myocardial infarction in 52 countries in the INTERHEART study: a case-control study.
    Lancet, 368(9536): 647-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Is medicine use in adolescence risk behavior? Cross-sectional survey of school-aged children from 11 to 15.
    J Adolesc Health, 39(3): 362-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Prognostic factors in the treatment of generalized aggressive periodontitis: II. Effects of smoking on initial outcome.
    J Clin Periodontol, 33(9): 671-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Utility of the mouse dermal promotion assay in comparing the tumorigenic potential of cigarette mainstream smoke.
    Food Chem Toxicol, 44(10): 1699-706. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Smoking and mortality from esophageal cancer in China: a large case-control study of 19,734 male esophageal cancer deaths and 104,846 living spouse controls.
    Int J Cancer, 119(6): 1427-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Alcohol use, smoking, and feeling unsafe: health risk behaviors of two urban seventh grade classes.
    Issues Compr Pediatr Nurs, 29(3): 157-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Effects of cigarette smoking on serum fluoride concentrations and renal function integrity after 1 MAC-h sevoflurane anaesthesia.
    Acta Anaesthesiol Scand, 50(8): 982-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. The effect of cigarette smoking on the hypnotic efficacy of propofol.
    Anaesthesia, 61(9): 826-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Race/ethnicity and nativity differences in alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy.
    Am J Public Health, 96(9): 1629-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Does smoking reduce akathisia? Testing a narrow version of the self-medication hypothesis.
    Schizophr Res, 86(1): 256-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Don't give up on me baby: spousal correlation in smoking behaviour.
    J Health Econ, 25(5): 958-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Human tobacco smokers in early abstinence have higher levels of beta2* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors than nonsmokers.
    J Neurosci, 26(34): 8707-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Risk of limb deficiency defects associated with NAT1, NAT2, GSTT1, GSTM1, and NOS3 genetic variants, maternal smoking, and vitamin supplement intake.
    Am J Med Genet A, 140(18): 1915-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Prisoners' attitudes towards cigarette smoking and smoking cessation: a questionnaire study in Poland.
    BMC Public Health, 6: 181. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Racial and ethnic differences in lung cancer incidence: how much is explained by differences in smoking patterns? (United States).
    Cancer Causes Control, 17(8): 1017-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Prenatal smoking predicts non-responsiveness to an intervention targeting attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms in elementary schoolchildren.
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 47(9): 891-901. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overt and covert conduct problems: a longitudinal study.
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 47(9): 883-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Smoke exposure and ethanol ingestion modulate intrapulmonary polymorphonuclear leukocyte killing, but not recruitment or phagocytosis.
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 30(9): 1599-607. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Senescence marker protein-30 protects mice lungs from oxidative stress, aging, and smoking.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 174(5): 530-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Smoking and degenerative changes of the cervical spine: a roentgenographic study.
    Spine J, 6(5): 557-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Carboxyhaemoglobin levels and their determinants in older British men.
    BMC Public Health, 6: 189. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Taking ad-Vantage of lax advertising regulation in the USA and Canada: reassuring and distracting health-concerned smokers.
    Soc Sci Med, 63(8): 1973-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Smoking imputation and lung cancer in railroad workers exposed to diesel exhaust.
    Am J Ind Med, 49(9): 709-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Different p53 mutation patterns in colorectal tumors from smokers and nonsmokers.
    Environ Mol Mutagen, 47(7): 527-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. A comparison of neurocognitive function in nonsmoking and chronically smoking short-term abstinent alcoholics.
    Alcohol, 39(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Understanding smoking cessation: the role of smokers' quit history.
    Psychol Addict Behav, 20(3): 356-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. Cigarette tar phenols impede T cell cycle progression by inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinases.
    Mol Immunol, 44(4): 488-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Current and emerging pharmacotherapies for treating tobacco dependence.
    Expert Opin Emerg Drugs, 11(3): 429-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. The effects of concurrent cannabis use among ecstasy users: neuroprotective or neurotoxic?
    Hum Psychopharmacol, 21(6): 355-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Tobacco smoking, NAT2 acetylation genotype and breast cancer risk.
    Int J Cancer, 119(8): 1961-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Epigenetic inactivation of the SFRP genes is associated with drinking, smoking and HPV in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
    Int J Cancer, 119(8): 1761-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Elucidating early mechanisms of developmental psychopathology: the case of prenatal smoking and disruptive behavior.
    Child Dev, 77(4): 893-906. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Genetic and acquired inflammatory conditions are synergistically associated with early carotid atherosclerosis.
    Stroke, 37(9): 2253-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. Curcumin combats against cigarette smoke and ethanol-induced lipid alterations in rat lung and liver.
    Mol Cell Biochem, 288(1): 115-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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