Abstract In south‐east Asia, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea, smoking, alcohol consumption
and chewing of betel quid with or without tobacco or areca nut with or without tobacco are …

Nicotine and the minor tobacco alkaloids give rise to tobacco‐specific N‐nitrosamines
(TSNA) during tobacco processing and during smoking. Chemical‐analytical studies led to …

Based on recent analytical data, total human exoenous exposure to N-nitrosamines is
estimated to be 1.10 [mu] mol/day: the major exposure sources are the diet (0.79 [mu] …

Viral hepatitis in all its forms is a major public health problem throughout the world, affecting
several hundreds of millions of people. Viral hepatitis is a cause of considerable morbidity …

This eighty-ninth volume of the IARC Monographs is the third and last of a series on tobacco-
related agents. Volume 83 reported on the carcinogenicity of tobacco smoke and involuntary …

Oral cancer is the leading cancer type among Southeast Asian men and is causally
associated with the use of tobacco. Genetic polymorphisms in xenobiotic-metabolizing …

In most parts of the world, tobacco is used for smoking, whereas, in India, tobacco is used for
smoking as well as in diverse smokeless forms. Absorption of toxic and carcinogenic …

Abstract Purpose of Review The roles of the components of betel quid in oral carcinogenesis
remain unclear. The purpose of the present review is to highlight the effect of each …

Background. Cytogenetic studies, framed to assess the possible genomic damage caused
by areca nut consumption (without tobacco and not as a component of betel quid), were …

One hundred patients suffering from oral submucous fibrosis (OSF), oral leukoplakia (OL)
and oral lichen planus (OLP) were studied for the cytogenetic damage in oral mucosal cells …