As described in section II.G, we anticipate that these codes would mostly be used by primary care specialties, such as general medicine, geriatric medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics, or in some instances, certain specialists functioning as primary care practitionersfor example, an OB/GYN or a cardiologist
This magnetically heats the compatible Terea tobacco sticks which each contain a heating blade inside the tobacco (rather than in the device), a process which requires no device cleaning
For our longitudinal analyses we limited our sample to adults aged 40 years at Wave 1 who have ever had a COPD diagnosis at Wave 1 (N=686)
"The increase was underpinned by a large rise in illicit cigarettes as well as increases in e-cigarettes and other nicotine products," the ABS analysis found