Abstract Aims To assess levels of nicotine, nicotine degradation products and some specific impurities in commercial refill liquids for electronic cigarettes. Design and setting We analyzed 20 models of 10 of the most popular brands of refill liquids, using gas and liquid chromatography. Measurements We assessed nicotine content, content of the known nicotine degradation products and impurities, and presence of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol
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Tagged above-the-level, anabasine-were, assess-levels, below-the-level, bottles, ethylene, european, level, nor-diethylene, popular-brands, refill-bottles, refill-liquids, several-brands
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Abstract Aim To investigate the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and self-reported physical and mental health in a population with a high prevalence of hazardous drinking. Design Cross-sectional study of an age-stratified random sample of a population register. Setting The city of Izhevsk, The Russian Federation, 2008-9.
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Tagged adverse-effects, alcohol-intake, association, associations, health-appears, high-prevalence, mental-health, physical-health, russia, russian, the-association
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Abstract Aims There is increasing evidence that alcohol-related biases in selective attention and action tendency contribute to the eitiology of dysregulated drinking.
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Tagged ability, action-tendency, alcohol, att, biases-towards, both-selective, mechanisms-may, participants, social-drinkers, tendency-task, using-the-audit, working-memory
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Abstract Aims To test whether (a) drinking motives predict the frequency of predrinking (i.e. alcohol consumption before going out); (b) drinking motives predict HDGE (heavy drinking on a given evening: 4+ for women, 5+ for men) and related adverse consequences (hangover, injuries, blackouts etc.) even when predrinking is accounted for, and (c) drinking motives moderate the impact of predrinking on HDGE and consequences.
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Tagged combination, drinking-motive, exception, frequency, hdge, heavy-drinking, internet, internet-based, related, the-combination, the-frequency
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Abstract Aims To assess the performance of a range of biomarkers of alcohol consumption in a heavy-drinking population of working-aged Russian men. Design Cross-sectional study of men originally sampled at random from a population register.
Abstract Background and aims Gene variants in CHRNA5-A3-B4, which encode for the 5, 3 and β4 nicotinic receptor subunits, are associated with altered smoking behaviors in European-Americans.
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Tagged 30kb-haplotype, alter-nicotine, cross-sectional, european, high-prevalence, increased-body, nicotine-intake, plasma-cotinine, such-as-plasma, tobacco, total-nicotine
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This month an event took place exploring 'Alcohol consumption in adolescence and early adult life: What are the consequences?' . It was organised by the Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER), a consortium of the UK’s leading birth cohort and longitudinal studies. 'High alcohol consumption – especially among young people – continues to be a major social and public health concern in the UK.
Abstract Aims This paper aims to identify possible system-level factors contributing to the marked differences in the levels of non-medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and prescription opioid (PO)-related harms in North America (i.e.
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Tagged comparative, dissemination, generally, global, health-systems, north, north-america, observed, organization, other-potential, potential, systems-consume, the-observed, united
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If the FDA embraces harm reduction and enacts balanced regulations that encourage the efficient development of safer forms of nicotine delivery, then it can both protect public health and enable free market forces, driven by innovation, to help permanentl
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Tagged alternate/reduced risk, efficient, embraces-harm, enacts-balanced, fda, market-forces, nicotine-delivery, op-ed, safer-forms, the-efficient
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Abstract Aims To provide novel, population-based estimates of the influence of minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) legislation on target in-patient hospital events in Canada. Design Regression–discontinuity analyses on rates of Canadian in-patient admissions
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Tagged accidents-were, baseline, classification, drinking-age, hospital-events, influence, legal-drinking, minimum-legal, mlda, motor-vehicle, provide-novel, years-admitted
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