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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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Smoking Reduction at Midlife and Lifetime Mortality Risk in Men: A Prospective Cohort Study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed survival and life expectancy according to changes in smoking intensity in a cohort of Israeli working men and concluded that decreasing smoking intensity should be considered as a risk-reduction strategy for heavy smokers who cannot quit abruptly.
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Wipe sampling for nicotine as a marker of thirdhand tobacco smoke contamination on surfaces in homes, cars, and hotels.

TL;DR: Wipe sampling for nicotine reliably distinguished between private homes, private cars, rental cars, and hotels with and without smoking bans and was significantly positively correlated with other measures of tobacco smoke contamination such as air and dust nicotine.
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PMI's own in vivo clinical data on biomarkers of potential harm in Americans show that IQOS is not detectably different from conventional cigarettes.

TL;DR: Despite delivering lower levels of some toxins than conventional cigarettes, PMI’s own data fail to show consistently lower risks of harm in humans using its heated tobacco product, IQOS, than conventionalarettes.
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Reducing prenatal smoking: the role of state policies.

TL;DR: Examination of the independent effects of higher cigarette taxes and prices, smokefree policies, and tobacco control spending on maternal smoking prior to, during, and after a pregnancy during a period in which states have made changes in such policies found States can use multiple tobacco control policies to reduce maternal smoking.
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Increasing progesterone levels are associated with smoking abstinence among free-cycling women smokers who receive brief pharmacotherapy.

TL;DR: This study was the first to identify an association between progesterone level (increasing) and abstinence outcomes in free-cycling women smokers who participated in a medication-based treatment.