Background Hardcore smoking behaviours and test of hardening are seldom reported from
low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). We report country-wise changes in smoking …

Introduction Tobacco smoking is a leading preventable cause of premature death globally.
Urinary thiocyanate is a biomarker of cyanide exposure from tobacco smoke; however, few …

Aims and Objectives: Several biological, social, and cultural factors contribute to the poor
outcome of tobacco cessation interventions. Inability to engage large number of participants …

Methods This study analyzed daily manufactured cigarette smoker data from the cross-
sectional Global Adult Tobacco Surveys (GATS) from its first (GAST-1, 2009) and second …

Tobacco smoking is affecting fundamental aspects of human health. This preliminary study
was set to investigate the effect of tobacco smoking on the salivary pH. The saliva is an …

Saliva serves a variety of purposes in the body, including defense against infection,
digestion, lubrication, immune system support, buffering, remineralization in healthy oral …

The recent past has witnessed an increased interest in the concept of wellbeing both in
academia and public policy. Governments and international organizations have developed …

Background: Tobacco use and quit attempts are two key indicators of the Global Adult
Tobacco Survey (GATS) that assess quit attempts among current as well as former tobacco …

Introduction: Cigarettes are the only legal consumer products in the world that cause onehalf
of their long-term users to die prematurely. As this epidemic continues to take its toll in the …

This report is a compilation of abstracts of a few published and unpublished research
studies on tobacco done from 2003 to 2014 in countires of the WHO South-East Asia …