scispace - formally typeset
Open Access

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

Reads0
Chats0
About
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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Tobacco-Related Alterations in Airway Gene Expression are Rapidly Reversed Within Weeks Following Smoking-Cessation.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the nasal epithelium can serve as a minimally-invasive tool to measure the reversible impact of smoking and broadly, may serve to assess the physiological impact of changes in smoking behavior.
Journal ArticleDOI

Patients and families realising their future with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—A qualitative study

TL;DR: Individuals and families need support early in the disease process to realise and accept the existence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and particularly to deal with the challenges that nicotine addiction, shame and self-blame present.
Journal ArticleDOI

Discontinuous Patterns of Cigarette Smoking From Ages 18 to 50 in the United States: A Repeated-Measures Latent Class Analysis.

TL;DR: This examination of latent classes of cigarette smoking among a national US longitudinal sample of high school graduates from ages 18 to 50 identified unique patterns and critical ages of susceptibility to change in smoking category within class.
Journal ArticleDOI

Effects of cigarette smoke extracts on apoptosis and oxidative stress in two models of ovarian cancer in vitro.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of cigarette smoke extract on cell proliferation, apoptosis and oxidative stress in the SKOV3 and OVCAR3 ovarian cancer cell lines suggests that CSE may induce cell proliferation inhibition and oxidative Stress in ovarian cells.
Journal ArticleDOI

Should clinicians encourage smoking cessation for every patient who smokes

Michael C. Fiore, +1 more
- 13 Mar 2013 - 
TL;DR: Two articles in this issue of JAMA address the question with regard to tobacco use: should some smokers not be encouraged and helped to quit?