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Smoking in Popular Streaming Shows and Youth Protection in Germany
Aim was to investigate the amount of smoking in popular streaming series in Germany with a focus on the comparison between series recommended for adults versus youth. The sample was drawn from the 35 highest u...
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Open AccessSmoking is associated with worse outcomes of COVID-19 particularly among younger adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Smoking impairs lung immune function and damages upper airways, increasing risks of contracting and severity of infectious diseases. This paper quantifies the association between smoking and COVID-19 disease p...
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Open AccessIn defense of sugar: a critical analysis of rhetorical strategies used in The Sugar Association’s award-winning 1976 public relations campaign
In 1976, the U.S. Sugar Association (SA), a globally networked trade organization representing the cane and beet sugar industry, won the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award for a cr...
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Tobacco papers and tobacco industry ties in regulatory toxicology and pharmacology
We examined the relationship between the tobacco industry and the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and internet sources. We determined the fu...
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Multiple Streams Approach to Tobacco Control Policymaking in a Tobacco-Growing State
Smokefree policies (SFPs) have diffused throughout the US and worldwide. However, the development of SFPs in the difficult policy environment of tobacco-producing states and economies worldwide has not been we...
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Open AccessIsrael is failing to protect its citizens from secondhand smoke: underestimating public support
Rather than clearly and unequivocally requiring 100% smokefree workplaces and public places (including restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues), Israeli law contains several elements that parallel the...
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The vector of the tobacco epidemic: tobacco industry practices in low and middle-income countries
To understand transnational tobacco companies’ (TTCs) practices in low and middle-income countries which serve to block tobacco-control policies and promote tobacco use.
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Adding up the cost of a puff
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Tobacco Control and Direct Democracy in Dade County, Florida: Future Implications for Health Advocates
In 1979 and 1980 in Dade County, Florida, a small grassroots advocacy group, Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP), attempted to enact a clean indoor air ordinance through the initiative process. The tobacco ...
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Mechanically Increased Right Ventricular Afterload Alters Left Ventricular Configuration, Not Contractility, in Neonatal Lambs
ABSTRACT: Left ventricular dysfunction has been observed in human infants with pulmonary hypertension. The purpose of this study was to establish whether mechanically increased right ventricular afterload alte...
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Determinants of Diastolic Function
The original concept of diastolic function of the left ventricle was that the pressure within the left ventricle is determined by the balance between the forces due to pressures within the ventricular cavity t...
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Tobacco Advertising and Consumption: Evidence of a Causal Relationship
This paper considers whether there is a causal relationship between advertising and promotion and the consumption of cigarettes. If advertising and promotion increase cigarette consumption, then less than two ...
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Effects of the Pericardium on Left Ventricular Performance
Several investigators have demonstrated acute, reversible shifts in the position of the diastolic, left ventricular pressure-volume curve (1,2,3 4,5,6). Upward shifts tend to be associated with conditions that...
