Breath And Smoke

Author : Jennifer Loughmiller-Cardinal,Keith Eppich
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826360939

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Breath and Smoke by Jennifer Loughmiller-Cardinal,Keith Eppich Pdf

From Classical antiquity to the present, tobacco has existed as a potent ritual substance. Tobacco use among the Maya straddles a recreational/ritual/medicinal nexus that can be difficult for Western audiences to understand. To best characterize the pervasive substance, this volume assembles scholars from a variety of disciplines and specialties to discuss tobacco in modern and ancient contexts. The chapters utilize research from archaeology, ethnography, mythic narrative, and chemical science from the eighth through the twenty-first centuries. Breath and Smoke explores the uses of tobacco among the Maya of Central America, revealing tobacco as a key topic in pre-Columbian art, iconography, and hieroglyphics. By assessing and considering myths, imagery, hieroglyphic texts, and material goods, as well as modern practices and their somatic effects, this volume brings the Mayan world of the past into greater focus and sheds light on the practices of today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822037817723

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How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease by Anonim Pdf

This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Passive smoking
ISBN : PURD:32754076769391

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The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke by Anonim Pdf

This Surgeon General's report returns to the topic of the health effects of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. The last comprehensive review of this evidence by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was in the 1986 Surgeon General's report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking, published 20 years ago this year. This new report updates the evidence of the harmful effects of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. This large body of research findings is captured in an accompanying dynamic database that profiles key epidemiologic findings, and allows the evidence on health effects of exposure to tobacco smoke to be synthesized and updated (following the format of the 2004 report, The Health Consequences of Smoking). The database enables users to explore the data and studies supporting the conclusions in the report. The database is available on the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco.

Author : John S. Marr
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0871310384

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A Breath of Air and a Breath of Smoke by John S. Marr Pdf

A book for young people on the dangers of smoking. Ages 8 and up.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Passive Smoking
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309074568

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Environmental Tobacco Smoke by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Passive Smoking Pdf

This comprehensive book examines the recent research investigating the characteristics and composition of different types of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and discusses possible health effects of ETS. The volume presents an overview of methods used to determine exposures to environmental smoke and reviews both chronic and acute health effects. Many recommendations are made for areas of further research, including the differences between smokers and nonsmokers in absorbing, metabolizing, and excreting the components of ETS, and the possible effects of ETS exposure during childhood and fetal life.

Author : Jennifer Loughmiller-Cardinal,Keith Eppich
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826360939

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Breath and Smoke by Jennifer Loughmiller-Cardinal,Keith Eppich Pdf

From Classical antiquity to the present, tobacco has existed as a potent ritual substance. Tobacco use among the Maya straddles a recreational/ritual/medicinal nexus that can be difficult for Western audiences to understand. To best characterize the pervasive substance, this volume assembles scholars from a variety of disciplines and specialties to discuss tobacco in modern and ancient contexts. The chapters utilize research from archaeology, ethnography, mythic narrative, and chemical science from the eighth through the twenty-first centuries. Breath and Smoke explores the uses of tobacco among the Maya of Central America, revealing tobacco as a key topic in pre-Columbian art, iconography, and hieroglyphics. By assessing and considering myths, imagery, hieroglyphic texts, and material goods, as well as modern practices and their somatic effects, this volume brings the Mayan world of the past into greater focus and sheds light on the practices of today.

Author : Deborah Holmberg-Schwartz,Women's Health Clinic (Winnipeg, Man.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Smoking
ISBN : 0969478755

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Catching Our Breath by Deborah Holmberg-Schwartz,Women's Health Clinic (Winnipeg, Man.) Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309138390

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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events Pdf

Data suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke can result in heart disease in nonsmoking adults. Recently, progress has been made in reducing involuntary exposure to secondhand smoke through legislation banning smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and other public places. The effect of legislation to ban smoking and its effects on the cardiovascular health of nonsmoking adults, however, remains a question. Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects reviews available scientific literature to assess the relationship between secondhand smoke exposure and acute coronary events. The authors, experts in secondhand smoke exposure and toxicology, clinical cardiology, epidemiology, and statistics, find that there is about a 25 to 30 percent increase in the risk of coronary heart disease from exposure to secondhand smoke. Their findings agree with the 2006 Surgeon General's Report conclusion that there are increased risks of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality among men and women exposed to secondhand smoke. However, the authors note that the evidence for determining the magnitude of the relationship between chronic secondhand smoke exposure and coronary heart disease is not very strong. Public health professionals will rely upon Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects for its survey of critical epidemiological studies on the effects of smoking bans and evidence of links between secondhand smoke exposure and cardiovascular events, as well as its findings and recommendations.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Janet Joy,Alison Mack
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309065313

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Marijuana As Medicine? by Institute of Medicine,Janet Joy,Alison Mack Pdf

Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease their symptoms? Would it be breaking the law to turn to marijuana as a medication? There are few sources of objective, scientifically sound advice for people in this situation. Most books about marijuana and medicine attempt to promote the views of advocates or opponents. To fill the gap between these extremes, authors Alison Mack and Janet Joy have extracted critical findings from a recent Institute of Medicine study on this important issue, interpreting them for a general audience. Marijuana As Medicine? provides patientsâ€"as well as the people who care for themâ€"with a foundation for making decisions about their own health care. This empowering volume examines several key points, including: Whether marijuana can relieve a variety of symptoms, including pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and appetite loss. The dangers of smoking marijuana, as well as the effects of its active chemical components on the immune system and on psychological health. The potential use of marijuana-based medications on symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and several other specific disorders, in comparison with existing treatments. Marijuana As Medicine? introduces readers to the active compounds in marijuana. These include the principal ingredient in Marinol, a legal medication. The authors also discuss the prospects for developing other drugs derived from marijuana's active ingredients. In addition to providing an up-to-date review of the science behind the medical marijuana debate, Mack and Joy also answer common questions about the legal status of marijuana, explaining the conflict between state and federal law regarding its medical use. Intended primarily as an aid to patients and caregivers, this book objectively presents critical information so that it can be used to make responsible health care decisions. Marijuana As Medicine? will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, health care providers, patient counselors, medical faculty and studentsâ€"in short, anyone who wants to learn more about this important issue.

Author : United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCBK:C095488540

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Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General Pdf

This Surgeon General's report details the causes and the consequences of tobacco use among youth and young adults by focusing on the social, environmental, advertising, and marketing influences that encourage youth and young adults to initiate and sustain tobacco use. This is the first time tobacco data on young adults as a discrete population have been explored in detail. The report also highlights successful strategies to prevent young people from using tobacco

Author : G. Cumming,G. Bonsignore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461324096

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Smoking and the Lung by G. Cumming,G. Bonsignore Pdf

Author : E. Melanie Dupuis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814719619

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Smoke and Mirrors by E. Melanie Dupuis Pdf

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.

Author : Fatimah Ibrahim,Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong,Juliana Usman,Mohd Yazed Ahmad,Rizal Razman,Victor S Selvanayagam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811037375

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3rd International Conference on Movement, Health and Exercise by Fatimah Ibrahim,Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong,Juliana Usman,Mohd Yazed Ahmad,Rizal Razman,Victor S Selvanayagam Pdf

This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Movement, Health and Exercise 2016 (MoHE2016). The conference was jointly organized by the Biomedical Engineering Department and Sports Centre, University of Malaya. It was held in Malacca, from 28-30 September 2016. MoHE 2016 provided a good opportunity for speakers and participants to actively discuss about recent developments in a wide range of topics in the area of sports and exercise science. In total, 83 presenters and 140 participants took part in this successful conference.

Author : IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans,World Health Organization,International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publisher : IARC
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9283212835

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Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking by IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans,World Health Organization,International Agency for Research on Cancer Pdf

The IARC Monographs series publishes authoritative independent assessments by international experts of the carcinogenic risks posed to humans by a variety of agents, mixtures and exposures. They are a resource of information for both researchers and national and international authorities. This volume is particularly significant because tobacco smoke not only causes more deaths from cancer than any other known agent; it also causes more deaths from vascular and respiratory diseases. This volume contains all the relevant information on both direct and passive smoking. It is organised by first looking at the nature of agent before collecting the evidence of cancer in humans. This is followed by carcinogenicity studies on animals and then any other data relevant to an evaluation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Smoking cessation
ISBN : 0660370913

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On the Road to Quitting by Anonim Pdf