While the majority of the cigarette is burned, the plastic filter, contaminated with tobacco, formalin, and other chemicals, is left behind
Waste Manage 52:228244 Montalvo MF, Sampaio LLG, Gomes HHF, Malafaia G (2019) An insight into the cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, and mutagenicity of smoked cigarette butt leachate by using Allium cepa as test system
During annual interviews, participants were asked, Since our last telephone interview with you on (date), has a doctor or health professional told you that you had high blood pressure or hypertension?. Those who responded affirmatively were then asked, What treatment was recommended?. We classified participants as having incident hypertension if they responded, Start new medicine. We used the last annual follow-up data released which contains the first 11 closed years since baseline (2008-2011)
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