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COPD AND THE MICROBIOME. "Although culture-independent techniques have shown that the lungs are not sterile, little is known about the lung microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ... the pulmonary microbiome and ... global and micro-anatomic change in these bacterial communities in severe COPD patients." https://lnkd.in/dNRjGkQ View in LinkedIn

SMOKING AND ORAL HEALTH. "Smoking cessation alters the subgingival microbial profile. Following nonsurgical periodontal therapy and smoking cessation, the subgingival microbiome is recolonized by a greater number of health-associated species and there are a significantly lower prevalence and abundance of putative periodontal pathogens." https://lnkd.in/d-RmKFM View in LinkedIn

SMOKING CAUSES GINGIVITIS. "It is established that bacterial consortia within the subgingival microbiome play a critical role in the etiology of chronic periodontitis. Tobacco smoking has been shown to preferentially enrich this microbiome for pathogenic species." https://lnkd.in/d-RmKFM View in LinkedIn

SMOKING AND THE MICROBIOME. A study of the effects of smoking on the oral and lung Microbiome. The surprise is that the mouth flora changes a lot, the lung less; however, methods for lung microbiome investigation, and the invasiveness of these methods, are big hurdles. https://lnkd.in/dqAKqAJ View in LinkedIn

MICROBIOME AND NICOTINE. "While the bacterial diversity in the faeces of smokers and non-smokers changed only little over time, giving up smoking resulted in the biggest shift in the composition of the microbial inhabitants of the intestines." https://lnkd.in/d-JjpRM View in LinkedIn

KICKING NICOTINE AND WEIGHT GAIN. "Most smokers put on a couple of kilos when they quit smoking. This is not due to an increased calorie intake, but to a change in the composition of the intestinal flora after quitting smoking, as a study suggests." https://lnkd.in/d-JjpRM View in LinkedIn

SKININESS DEPENDENT ON CONTINUED NICOTINE. "If people used, say, a nicotine patch, "you might find that patients do lose weight but then become dependent on a patch all the time." Stop smoking and gain 2Kg. A winning strategy. https://lnkd.in/d75vVJD View in LinkedIn

MOUSE TOBACCO AND WEIGHT STUDY. "after just one day of exposure to the smoke, food intake had already started to decrease. This continued, such that over the trial, food intake in the smoke-exposed mice was 30% less than the control mice and their body weight had reduced by about 10%.” https://lnkd.in/dyJX9em View in LinkedIn

ADOLESCENT GIRLS' HOT BUTTON. "Being thin and desire for weight control do influence adolescents in terms of smoking behavior. Research demonstrates that adolescent girls that strongly value being thin are more likely to initiate smoking ... girls already engaged in risky behavior for weight control are at increased odds to begin smoking as well." https://lnkd.in/dDuB6rn View in LinkedIn

LUCKY STRIKE. "For a slender figure reach for a Lucky insteady of a sweet." ... the “Reach for a Lucky” campaign is one of the most successful, albeit controversial advertising campaigns in the history of modern advertising ... sought to give the female market a reason to smoke as well." https://lnkd.in/dDuB6rn View in LinkedIn