Background: Smoking has been suggested to increase the rate of perioperative
complications including soft-tissue complications, to decrease the rate of fracture union, and …

An overview of tobacco smoking represents an essential starting point for an issue on lung
cancer. In the absence of tobacco smoking, there would be far fewer cases of lung cancer …

Covid-19 has shown the vital importance of human behaviours such as social distancing in
controlling pandemics. 1 2 The absence of a cure and an effective vaccine has meant that …

Importance Smoking tobacco is a well-established risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS), a
chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system usually characterized by bouts …

We propose an innovative, integrated, cost-effective health system to combat major non-
communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular, chronic respiratory, metabolic …

Although, to our knowledge, there has been no exhaustive or credible review of the
evidence of the disease burden of COPD in China, COPD has become an increasing public …

Tobacco smoking is the single most avoidable cause of premature death worldwide. In
fracture healing, it has been found to be a contributory factor to delayed union, and smokers …

About one‐third of the world's tobacco is produced and consumed in China. Despite existing
tobacco control policies and activities, the prevalence of smoking in China remains high with …

The 2008–2013 World Health Organization (WHO) action plan on noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs) includes chronic respiratory diseases as one of its four priorities. Major …

OBJECTIVE Accumulating evidence has identified a positive association between active
smoking and the risk of diabetes, but previous studies had limited information on passive …