Smoking cessation
Key Points A large body of literature strongly suggests that cigarette smoke unfavourably influences all major stages of atherosclerosis as well as pathological atherothrombus formation Cigarette smoke contains oxidant compounds that cause oxidative stress in the endothelium, leading to endothelial dysfunction and injury, initiation of the atherosclerotic process, and subsequent formation of atherosclerotic plaques Cigarette smoke promotes the development of vulnerable plaques and plaque rupture by enhancing inflammation and activating matrix metalloproteinases Cigarette smoke causes platelet activation, and promotes platelet aggregation and platelet adhesion to sites of endothelial injury Exposure to cigarette smoke shifts the balance of haemostasis towards thrombus formation by enhancing blood clotting and, at the same time, reducing the fibrinolytic capacity This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 print issues and online access $189.00 per year only $15.75 per issue Buy this article Purchase on SpringerLink Instant access to the full article PDF
By 2023, one in five adults under 45 were vaping, the study calculated
Smoke breathed out by smokers or smoke produced by cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or other tobacco products is secondhand smoke
Topics included the benefits of using more naturalorigin fish in hatchery broodstock, strategies for reducing domestication effects in hatchery fish, and how release timing and marking practices can shape downstream outcomes
Most of the large fires were 20-30 miles away but some smaller ones were much closer
