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Smoking and HealthLast update: 7 September 2011, I've divided this page into three sections. The first provides you with some tips on searching for material on Medline, and the second provides links to other Australian and overseas web resources, including some full text material. Searching MedlineRemember that Medline has a Thesaurus of terms - MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), a controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in Medline. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information where authors may use different terminology for the same concepts. You will find material on this subject in Medline, but you will need to be aware of the thesaurus (MeSH) terms used to search for the various topics. The term cardiovascular disease has an extensive number of more specific terms associated with it, and you can see these listed in the MeSH database. MeSH - Tobacco Smoke Pollution Many topics in MeSH have hierarchies of more specific subcategories or related terms. The indentations in the lists reflect the structure of the hierarchy, and the + signs at the end of terms indicate that there is a further hierarchy of terms not displayed here. Any of these terms can be searched individually, or you can "explode" terms to search sections of the list. When you search for subjects using MeSH terms from the Medline thesaurus you will also have the option of appending subheadings to narrow the focus of your search. For a list of the abbreviations used for subheadings in PubMed click here Try the following search strategy to find articles on mortality and smoking. PubMed Search Formulationsmoking/mo[majr:noexp] AND english[lang] The search strategy above uses the subheading mortality "mo"associated with smoking. The section in the square brackets includes majr - which focuses the search on articles where the subject is a major issue in the article, and noexp - which stops the "explosion" of the term and avoids retrieval of articles on marijuana smoking. The search is then limited to articles in English or with English abstracts. Click here to see how it works. PubMed Search. Australian SourcesDepartment of Health and Ageing - Health topic quickview: Tobacco National Drug Strategy Publications. Tobacco Quitnow Smoking Tobacco Control Super Site Tobacco In Australia Overseas SourcesAdditional Links on
ASH's Web
Site bmj.com
Collected Resources
: Smoking Clearing the
Smoke:
Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group - Our reviews Coffin Nails: The
Tobacco
Controversy in the 19th Century The Economics of Tobacco Policy Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation Legacy Tobacco
Documents
Library N
C H S - FASTATS - Smoking QuitNet - A Free Resource To
Quit Smoking Report
of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence Smoking and public health: a compendium of smoking behaviour initiatives that address socially disadvantaged populations Surgeon
General's Reports
Related to Tobacco TIPS - CDC's Tobacco
Information
and Prevention Source Tobacco Cessation - You Can Quit Smoking Now! Tobacco Control
Archives UW-Center for Tobacco
Research and Intervention WHO: The Tobacco Atlas |
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