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The Tobacco Road teams represent the following universities: North Carolina Tar Heels Duke Blue Devils NC State Wolfpack Wake Forest Demon Deacons North Carolina, Duke, and NC State lie in the Research Triangle and are separated by no more than 25 miles (40 km)
Additionally, we found that children of mothers who had smoked in early pregnancy and before pregnancy also had a significantly increased risk of bronchial asthma at 3 years of age
(source) Additionally, tobacco manufacturers strategically exploit the socioeconomic challenges faced by individuals in poverty, such as stress, limited resources, and sometimes hopelessness, to foster reliance on cigarettes as a false coping mechanism
However, selective agonists for the alpha7 nicotinic receptor could represent a pharmacological strategy to reduce neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration and may prove beneficial in patients with MS.36 A strength of our study is the population-based design, the high response rate, and the detailed information regarding exposures which makes it possible to consider several potential confounding factors
