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Welcome to the new Scientific Evidence Portal on smoking. This area is meant as an educational tool to debunk misinformation and exaggerations about active and passive smoking, and it may be a valuable source of information for researchers. This archive is frequently updated, and we invite you to visit it often. If this is your first visit here, you may wish to read our section Getting The Most From The Evidence Portal

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Drunk Driving After the Passage of Smoking Bans in Bars | Scott Adams, Chad Cotti

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the Dangers of Cessation and Bans category of this portal
Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Journal of Public Economics

Keywords: prohibition, bans, smoking, alcohol, Adams, Cotti

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Brief Secondhand Smoke Exposure Depresses Endothelial Progenitor Cells Activity and Endothelial Function | Christian Heiss, Nicolas Amabile,Andrew C. Lee,Wendy May Real,Suzaynn F. Schick, David Lao, Maelene L. Wong, Sarah Jahn, Franca S. Angeli, Petros Minasi, Matthew L. Springer, S. Katharine Hammond, Stanton A. Glantz, William Grossman, John R. Balme

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the Outright Fraud? category of this portal
Type: Experimental
Published By: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 51, No. 18

Keywords: fraud, endothelial, passive, smoking, ETS, bans, Heiss, Amabile, Lee, Real, Schick, Lao, Wong, Jahn, Angeli, Minasi, Springer, Hammond, Glantz, Grossman, Balme

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The role of Chlamydia Pneumoniae and Helicobacter Pylori in the causality of “tobacco-related” diseases | Bibliography

Article Published: 2008

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This item is in the Confounders category of this portal
Type: Bibliography
Keywords: confounders, chlamydia, pneumoniae, helicoboacter, pylori

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Relevance of nicotine content of common vegetables to the identification of passive tobacco smokers | E.F. Domino, E. Hombach, T. Demana

Article Published: 1993

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This item is in the Confounders category of this portal
Type: Experimental
Funding Source: Research supported by NIDA Grant 1 RO1 DA 07226
Significance: No Risk Estimate Reported

Published By: Med. sci. Res. 1993; 21, 571-572

Keywords: confounders, nicotine, vegetables, ETS, passive, smoking, non smokers, Domino, Hombach, Demana

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Pharma companies offer NHS 'cash-back' on smoking cessation products: believe it, it’s true | Pharmafocus

Article Published: 2002

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This item is in the Who Pays Whom category of this portal
Type: Political
Published By: Pharmafocus

Keywords: big, pharma, NHS, England, corruption, pharmaceuticals

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Cigarette smoking and the incidence of Parkinson's disease in two prospective studies | Miguel A. Hernán, Shumin M. Zhang, Ana M. Rueda-DeCastro, Graham A. Colditz, Frank E. Speizer, Alberto Ascherio

Article Published: 2001

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This item is in the Therapeutic Effects of Smoking category of this portal
Type: Cohort
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Annals of Neurology, Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 780-786

Keywords: therapeutic, parkinson, smoking, Hernán, Zhang, Rueda-DeCastro, Colditz, Speizer, Ascherio

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Prospective Study of Cigarette Smoking and the Risk of Developing Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease | Andrew Grandinetti, David M. Morens, Dwayne Reed, Dorothy MacEachern

Article Published: 1994

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This item is in the Therapeutic Effects of Smoking category of this portal
Risk: RR = 0.39
Type: Follow-up
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 139, No. 12: 1129-1138

Keywords: therapeutic, parkinson, smoking, Grandinetti, Morens, Reed, MacEachern

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Is Academic Medicine for Sale? | Marcia Angell, MD

Article Published: 2000/05/18

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This item is in the Ethics and Intimidation category of this portal
Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: New England Journal of Medicine v.342, n.20, p.1516-1518

Keywords: academic, medicine, sale, corruption, Angell, Marcia

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Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies | Richard Smith

Article Published: 2005

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This item is in the Ethics and Intimidation category of this portal
Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: PLoS Medicine, 2008, volume 2, issue 5

Keywords: pharma, big, pharmaceutical, corruption, Smith

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Italy: business owners are not obligated to become ‘antismoking cops’ | Lazio Regional Administrative Tribunal of Rome, division III

Article Published: 2005/08/01

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This item is in the Legal Decisions and Legal Matters category of this portal
Type: Legal
Published By: Lexitalia.it

Keywords: business, Italy, decision, Lazio, prohibition, exemption, public, smoking

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