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Tobacco

Tobacco refers to the cured leaves of Nicotiana plants, consumed primarily by smoking but also through smokeless and aerosolized routes, which deliver the addictive alkaloid nicotine together with a large number of carcinogens, toxicants, and irritants. It is among the leading preventable causes of disease and death…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 41× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Tobacco refers to the cured leaves of Nicotiana plants, consumed primarily by smoking but also through smokeless and aerosolized routes, which deliver the addictive alkaloid nicotine together with a large number of carcinogens, toxicants, and irritants. It is among the leading preventable causes of disease and death worldwide, strongly implicated in malignancies of the lung and of the head and neck, as well as cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease. Exposure encompasses both active smoking and involuntary second-hand smoke, which affects bystanders and is associated with cardiovascular and respiratory harm. Emerging nicotine and tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and vaping devices, have introduced new patterns of use and evolving questions about oropharyngeal cancer risk and cardiovascular effects. At the molecular level, tobacco constituents drive carcinogenesis through DNA damage, mutation, and dysregulated gene expression, with altered long non-coding RNAs explored as candidate biomarkers of tobacco- and alcohol-associated cancers. Tobacco control policy, including smoking bans, mass-media campaigns, and structured roadmaps, aims to reduce initiation, prevalence, and exposure across populations. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to this area, with work addressing tobacco control programming and mass-media interventions, smoking bans, second-hand and involuntary smoke exposure and its cardiovascular impact, electronic cigarette and oropharyngeal cancer risk, and molecular biomarkers of tobacco-related head and neck cancer.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

From Smoking to Vaping: What does Judaism have to Say?

Turner AkivaCorresponding author
Chair and Professor, Department of Health Science, Nova Southeastern University, USA
Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-20-3163

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 41 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Tobacco, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Lung Cancer Epidemiology.

Journal editorial board
Krzysztof Roszkowski · Poland Peter Lee · United Kingdom Jonathan Riess · United States

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