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How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1442 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tobacco smoke.

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Sex Differences in Subjective Responses To Moderate Versus Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes.

TL;DR: The results with research cigarettes are similar to other studies with carefully dosed nicotine administration by other means, supporting the notion that women, relative to men, are less sensitive to pharmacological factors and more sensitive to nonpharmacological factors in acute cigarette smoking.
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Factors affecting the prevalence of chronic diseases in Palestinian people: an analysis of data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

TL;DR: Age was a risk factor for diabetes, hypertension and CVD; the magnitude of this increased risk was alarming, 36 to 434 times greater in those aged 40-65 years compared with those aged 0-19 years.
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Predictors of hospitalization for asthma in children: Results of a 1-year prospective study

TL;DR: A large number of previous studies that aimed to identify predictors of hospital admission for asthma in children have mainly been conducted in high‐income countries, and these findings might not be applicable to LMIC.
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IP3 and calcium signaling involved in the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton and cell rounding induced by cigarette smoke extract in human endothelial cells

TL;DR: Results suggest that reactive oxygen species production and intracellular calcium increase play an essential role in CSE‐induced actin disorganization and cell rounding through a PLC–IP3–PKC signaling pathway.
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Switching from usual brand cigarettes to a tobacco-heating cigarette or snus: Part 3. Biomarkers of biological effect

TL;DR: A randomized, multi-center study of adult cigarette smokers switched to tobacco-heating cigarettes, snus or ultra-low machine yield tobacco-burning cigarettes for 24 weeks indicated that the majority of consistent and statistically significant improvements over time within each group were observed in markers of inflammation.