[The analysis of smoking tobacco of patients with tuberculosis--data from ten years observation in Regional Center of Pulmonology in Bydgoszcz].

Unlabelled: Tobacco smoking is recognised by the society as the the main problem of the public health in the world and as the factor of the risk of tuberculosis, it grew up last decades considerably, universally particularly in countries developing. That is why also our studies also represents in the clinical aspect the relationship between tuberculosis - as active disease and tobacco smoking.

The Method: The retrospective investigation comprised 2025 patients with tuberculosis in the period 10 years from Regional Center of Pulmonology in Bydgoszcz.

[Tobacco smoking among young patients with bronchial asthma and determination of smoking-related behavior in the patient's closest environment].

Background: The negative influence of tobacco smoke on the course of bronchial asthma is complex and includes direct toxic effects on the epithelium of the respiratory tract. It is estimated that in developed countries, approximately 25 percent of adult asthmatics are tobacco smokers. Knowledge of the scale of the habit, may considerably contribute to the optimization of effective pro-health activity.

A case report of a patient with dermatomyositis as a prodromal sign of lung cancer.

Dermatomyositis (DM) is a connective tissue disease characterized by specific inflammatory lesions in muscle biopsy. It is caused by vasculitis determined by humoral factors with subsequent inflammatory cell accumulation, mainly T CD4+ and B cells, which infiltrate myocytes leading to its vacuolization and degeneration (mainly in the skeletal muscles, rarely in the smooth muscles). The incidence of DM is estimated at 1-10 per million in adults and at 1-3.

[Analysis of spreading of smoking habit among pregnant women admitted to the Prenatal Outpatient Clinic in 2005-2006].

A harmful influence smoking on health is well known and documented. Smoking during pregnancy has negative influence not only on mothers but also on embryos. In spite of pregnancy is a very good reason to stop smoking only every third pregnant stop smoking during pregnancy.