The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), suggests that these alterations make cigarette smokers, and those exposed to second- and third-hand smoke, more susceptible to ...

This rise in the arsenic content of cigarette smoke coincided with an increase ... Notes on the excessive background arsenic in laboratory practice are presented in the appendix to the unpublished ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...

1 Although knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms of this relation is incomplete it is clear that cigarette smoke produces a variety of morphologic and physiologic changes in the lung. The ...