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Relationships among smoking, oxidative stress, inflammation, macromolecular damage, and cancer.
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386 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 624 citations in OpenAlex.
- Secondhand tobacco exposure and risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of dose-response relationships between smoking tobacco, alcohol consumption and oral cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Methods to assess atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk in chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of nurse-initiated smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship between tobacco and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism in oral cancer as a function of tobacco consumption: an evidence based systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
- Volatile organic compounds in exhaled human breath for the diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Randomized Phase II Clinical Trial of Sulforaphane in Former Smokers at High Risk for Lung Cancer.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Trial
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- Accelerated aging in schizophrenia: integrating epigenetic clocks, telomere dynamics, senescence-associated secretory phenotype, and oxidative stress.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Dietary Matcha Attenuates High-Fat High-Sugar Diet-Induced Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy in Association with Gut Microbiota Remodeling in Mice.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Beyond Combustion: Oxidative Stress as a Shared Pathway of Harm Across Conventional Cigarettes, Heated Tobacco Products, E-Cigarettes, and Waterpipe Smoking.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Formononetin Alleviates Cigarette Smoke Extract-Induced Lung Injury in Mice with Gut Microbiota and Taurine/SLC6A6/NF-κB Modulation.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and oxidative stress biomarkers in pre- and perimenopausal women from the Midlife Women's Health Study.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the pharmacological effects of extracts and newly isolated phenolic acid glycosides fromRSC advances · 2026Article
- Sex-specific associations of the bilirubin-to-albumin ratio with lung cancer risk: evidence from Cox regression and causal survival forest analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Article
- PDLIM2 acts as a central regulator of ubiquitination, immune signaling, and mitochondrial metabolism in lung cancer suppression (Review).International journal of oncology · 2026Review
326 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Smoking is a major risk factor for a variety of diseases, including cancer and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. Tobacco smoke contains a mixture of chemicals, including a host of reactive oxygen- and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS), among others, that can damage cellular and sub-cellular targets, such as lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. A growing body of evidence supports a key role for smoking-induced ROS and the resulting oxidative stress in inflammation and carcinogenesis. This comprehensive and up-to-date review covers four interrelated topics, including 'smoking', 'oxidative stress', 'inflammation', and 'cancer'. The review discusses each of the four topics, while exploring the intersections among the topics by highlighting the macromolecular damage attributable to ROS. Specifically, oxidative damage to macromolecular targets, such as lipid peroxidation, post-translational modification of proteins, and DNA adduction, as well as enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant defense mechanisms, and the multi-faceted repair pathways of oxidized lesions are described. Also discussed are the biological consequences of oxidative damage to macromolecules if they evade the defense mechanisms and/or are not repaired properly or in time. Emphasis is placed on the genetic- and epigenetic alterations that may lead to transcriptional deregulation of functionally-important genes and disruption of regulatory elements. Smoking-associated oxidative stress also activates the inflammatory response pathway, which triggers a cascade of events of which ROS production is an initial yet indispensable step. The release of ROS at the site of damage and inflammation helps combat foreign pathogens and restores the injured tissue, while simultaneously increasing the burden of oxidative stress. This creates a vicious cycle in which smoking-related oxidative stress causes inflammation, which in turn, results in further generation of ROS, and potentially increased oxidative damage to macromolecular targets that may lead to cancer initiation and/or progression.
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