Background The changing prevalence and patterns of tobacco use, the advent of novel
nicotine delivery devices, and the development of new biomarkers prompted an update of …

The devastating link between tobacco products and human cancers results from a powerful
alliance of two factors—nicotine and carcinogens. Without either one of these, tobacco …

Combustion emissions account for over half of the fine particle (PM2. 5) air pollution and
most of the primary particulate organic matter. Human exposure to combustion emissions …

Much is now known about the carcinogens in cigarette smoke, their conversion to forms that
react with DNA, and the miscoding properties of the resulting DNA adducts that cause the …

Secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) is a known cause of many adverse health effects in
adults and children. Increasingly, SHSe assessment is an element of tobacco control …

Measurement of human urinary carcinogen metabolites is a practical approach for obtaining
important information about tobacco and cancer. This review presents currently available …

Objectives To investigate the association between environmental tobacco smoke, plasma
cotinine concentration, and respiratory cancer or death. Design Nested case-control study …

Tobacco use continues to be a major cause of cancer in the developed world, and despite
significant progress in this country in tobacco control, which is driving a decrease in cancer …

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 …

Conspectus Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world, and cigarette
smoking is its main cause. Oral cavity cancer is another debilitating and often fatal cancer …