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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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Heavy smoking during pregnancy as a marker for other risk factors of adverse birth outcomes: a population-based study in British Columbia, Canada.

TL;DR: Self reports of heavy smoking early in pregnancy could be used as a marker for lifestyle risk factors that in combination with smoking influence birth outcomes, and suggests that targeted intervention programs for not only smoking cessation, but potentially other support services such as nutrition and healthy pregnancy education are needed.
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Effects of Switching to the Menthol Tobacco Heating System 2.2, Smoking Abstinence, or Continued Cigarette Smoking on Clinically Relevant Risk Markers: A Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label, Multicenter Study in Sequential Confinement and Ambulatory Settings (Part 2)

TL;DR: Switching from menthol cigarettes to mTHS for 5 days in confinement and 85 days in ambulatory settings was associated with reductions in biomarkers of exposure to cigarette smoke, and changes were observed in clinically relevant biomarker of oxidative stress.
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The relation between number of smoking friends, and quit intentions, attempts, and success: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey.

TL;DR: Smokers who inhabit social contexts with a greater number of smokers may be less likely to successfully quit and quitting may be particularly unlikely among smokers who do not experience a loss in the number of smoker in their social context.
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Poor Mental Health and Reduced Decline in Smoking Prevalence

TL;DR: The disparity in which smokers with poor mental health are more likely to be current smokers and less likely to been never smokers as compared with those with better mental health has increased over time.