[HTML][HTML] Dietary intake and health effects of selected toxic elements

ALO Silva, PRG Barrocas, SC Jacob… - Brazilian journal of plant …, 2005 - SciELO Brasil
Anthropogenic activities have being contributing to the spread of toxic chemicals into the
environment, including several toxic metals and metalloids, increasing the levels of human …

Population-based disease odds for e-cigarettes and dual use versus cigarettes

SA Glantz, N Nguyen, AL Oliveira da Silva - NEJM evidence, 2024 - evidence.nejm.org
Background E-cigarettes are promoted as less harmful than cigarettes. There has not been a
direct comparison of health effects of e-cigarettes or dual use (concurrently using e …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 and smoking: a high-risk association

ALO Silva, JC Moreira… - Cadernos de saude …, 2020 - SciELO Public Health
SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, emerged in China in late 2019
and rapidly reached pandemic status. The virus displays tropism for the respiratory system …

The taste of smoke: tobacco industry strategies to prevent the prohibition of additives in tobacco products in Brazil

ALO da Silva, SA Bialous, PGD Albertassi… - Tobacco …, 2019 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background The tobacco industry (TI) uses several strategies to attract new consumers,
including using additives in tobacco products, which makes tobacco especially attractive to …

Comprehensive chemical characterization of Rapé tobacco products: Nicotine, un-ionized nicotine, tobacco-specific N′-nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic …

SB Stanfill, ALO da Silva, JG Lisko, TS Lawler… - Food and chemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Rapé, a diverse group of smokeless tobacco products indigenous to South America, is
generally used as a nasal snuff and contains substantial amount of plant material with or …

[HTML][HTML] Health without filters: the health and environmental impacts of cigarette filters

ALO Silva, SS Piras, SA Bialous… - Ciencia & saude coletiva, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Tobacco-related diseases kill eight million people worldwide ever year and are responsible
for thousands of cases of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other illnesses in Brazil …

[HTML][HTML] The ban of eletronic cigarettes in Brazil: success or failure?

ALO Silva, JC Moreira - Ciencia & saude coletiva, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Brazil was one of the first countries in the world to ban Electronic Smoking Devices (ESDs).
This ban was motivated by the lack of evidence regarding the alleged therapeutic properties …

Assessment of horticultural products whose crops allow the use of copper-based pesticides by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry

LMG dos Santos, C Barata-Silva, SAV Neto… - Journal of Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Copper is present in the environment and animals at low levels and is considered an
essential microelement for all living organisms, but in high amounts, it is considered toxic …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the use of heated tobacco products (HTP) on indoor air quality

MJDS Giongo, AM Carvalho, ALO Silva… - Physis: Revista de …, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Smoking is a chronic and epidemic disease caused by nicotine addiction present in tobacco
products. It is stated in the 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) for mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Tobacco industry strategies to prevent a ban on the display of tobacco products and changes to health warning labels on the packaging in Brazil

ALO da Silva, G Grilo, PAC Branco… - Tobacco Prevention & …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS In order to identify and describe TI's approaches, we reviewed several sources of
documentation, including published articles, reports, legislation, TI documents, and media …