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AimsTo explore attitudes towards, and experience of, illicit tobacco usage in a disadvantaged community against a backdrop of austerity and declining national trends in illicit tobacco use.
DesignQualitative study using 10 focus groups.
SettingMultiply disadvantaged community in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
ParticipantsFifty‐eight smokers, ex‐ and non‐smokers aged 15–60 years.
MeasurementsFocus...
The study aims to assess the a priori hypothesis that regular supplementation with vitamin C or magnesium will permit a reduction in the corticosteroid dose required to maintain asthma control in adults.We invited all participants recruited from primary care centres who completed a parallel-group, randomised, placebo-controlled, 16-week supplementation trial of 1g/day vitamin C or 450mg/day magnesium...
We report increased proportional mortality from cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis in the workforce of a major UK engineering company. Measures of mental exposure from unbiased historical occupational records showed that among employees who have worked with metal, the risk of death from or with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis increased in relation to the duration of metal-working.
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