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Article: Experts: 'No safe level' for cigarette smoke; New ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 30, 2005 ;     653 words ... ... smoke is like a heavy metal or a poison," said Mary Rose Corrigan, public ... Despite his caution, Berger said cigarette smoke has been proven to thwart pregnancies. "If you're around cigarette smoke, you are exposed to those chemicals ...

Article: Cigarette smoke may alter immune response in COPD ...
NewsRx Health;  April 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... But our research also suggests that cigarette smoke substantially changes the immune response ... We wanted to see whether and how cigarette smoke would change the inflammatory response ... and colleagues tested the effects of cigarette smoke exposure on inflammation and immune ...

Article: NF-kappaB mediates the survival of human bronchial epithelial ...
Respiratory Research;  September 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... corresponding author) [1] Background Cigarette smoke is the major preventable risk factor ... However, the mechanisms by which cigarette smoke causes these varying diseases are ... mechanism is believed to be the ability of cigarette smoke to damage cellular DNA leading to ...

Article: Vitamin A depletion induced by cigarette smoke is ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Benzo(a)pyrene, a constituent in cigarette smoke, induces vitamin A depletion when ... therefore, we tested the hypothesis that cigarette smoke induces vitamin A depletion, which ... experimental group was exposed to cigarette smoke from 20 nonfiltered commercial cigarettes ...

Article: Cigarette Smoke
UXL Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Cigarette smoke Cigarette smoke contains cancer-causing substances called carcinogens. Cigarette ... responsible for almost 500,000 premature deaths per year. Cigarette smoke is called mainstream smoke when it is inhaled directly from ...

Article: Cigarette smoke could alter shape of heart.(Report)
NewsRx Health;  December 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke can increase levels of the stress ... model, five weeks exposure to cigarette smoke was associated with the activation ... enzymes may be a key event in cigarette smoke-induced heart injury, says ...

Article: It takes two to tango: cigarette smoke partners ...
Journal of Clinical Investigation;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... slow their relentless expansion. Cigarette smoke is the major cause of chronic obstructive ... about COPD. The classic paradigm of cigarette smoke--induced COPD has proposed that ... resemblance of lung injury caused by cigarette smoke to the effects of aging in the lung ...