Traffic restrictions are an unpopular tool to mitigate urban air pollution, and a measurable
improvement in air quality is needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of this measure. …

The correlation between health effects and exposure to particulate matter (PM) has been of
primary concern to public health organizations. An emerging hypothesis is that many of the …

Purpose In diabetes, the interaction of glycated proteins with their cell-surface binding sites
leads to oxidative stress and induction of the stress protein heme oxygenase (HO)-1. …

Background: Air pollution is a common alibi used by adolescents taking up smoking and by
smokers uncertain about quitting. However, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes fine …

Nowadays, work-related musculoskeletal disorders have a drastic impact on a large part of
the world population. In particular, low-back pain counts as the leading cause of absence …

Background Outdoor secondhand smoke (SHS) concentrations are usually lower than
indoor concentrations, yet some studies have shown that outdoor SHS levels could be …

Background: Tobacco smoking entails inhaling millions of fine particles with each puff, and
it is intuitive that after smoking a cigarette it will take a certain time to washout residual …

Objective To analyse the prevalence and correlates of smoking in cars as well as attitudes
towards the extension of smoking bans in private vehicles among Italian adults. Methods We …

The association between exposure to indoor particulate matter (PM) and damage to cultural
assets has been of primary relevance to museum conservators. PM-induced damage to the “…

INDIVIDUAL tumour-associated transplantation antigens (TATA) of chemically induced
tumours and histocompatibility antigens (HA) share the ability of inducing transplantation …