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Deep Truth about Electronic Cigarettes
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Deep Truth about Electronic Cigarettes

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP The Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand

Tobacco cigarette smoking has well-documented adverse health effects. Due to difficulty in quitting smoking, harm reduction products with armamentarium comprising of nicotine patches...

มกราคม - มีนาคม 2568
Aerosol Chemistry – Comparison to Smoke
Short Communication

Aerosol Chemistry – Comparison to Smoke

Somchai Bovornkitti, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FACP

According to epidemiological data showing that worldwide more than 1 billion adults smoke, and smoking causes serious diseases including cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

มกราคม - มีนาคม 2568
Vaping: Benefits Outweigh the Risks
Letter to the Editor

Vaping: Benefits Outweigh the Risks

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

After reading an editorial article entitled Health Concern in Electronic Cigarettes by Kongkiat Kunkantharakorn and Somchai Bovornkitti in the Asian Medical Journal & Alternative Medicine (amjam) volume 21, January-April 2021 issue, pp. 5-6, I would like to provide additional information harvested from important documents.

มกราคม - มีนาคม 2568
You'll Never Walk Alone
Editorial

You'll Never Walk Alone

Somchai Bovornkitti

Smoking is the largest, preventable cause of lung cancer mortality. People smoke for nicotine and die from the tar.

ตุลาคม - ธันวาคม 2567
Will I Live to be 100
Editorial

Will I Live to be 100

Somchai Bovornkitti

Where optimism lives, anatomically, is in the amygdala, a small almond-shaped mass deep inside the brain. It enables us to process emotions and helps us to generate optimism.

กรกฎาคม - กันยายน 2567
Background Cases
Editorial

Background Cases

Somchai Bovornkitti

Mesothelioma is exclusively a cancer of the pleura and peritoneum. The tumor is often referred to as a sentinel disease for asbestos exposure, i.e. an epidemiologic marker for asbestos.

มกราคม - มีนาคม 2567
Asbestos Risks
Editorial

Asbestos Risks

Somchai Bovornkitti

Exaggerated claims of asbestos risks in Thailand first appeared in the media a few years after the beginning of importation of the mineral for industrial use, and such claims have surged from time to time.

มกราคม - มีนาคม 2567
Asbestos Fibers in the Lung
Editorial

Asbestos Fibers in the Lung

Somchai Bovornkitti

On August 8, 2017, a paper titled “First Identification of Pulmonary Asbestos Fibres ina Spanish Population” was published inthejournal “Lung.”

ตุลาคม - ธันวาคม 2566
A Low-grade Lung Cancer
Letter to the Editor

A Low-grade Lung Cancer

Somchai Bovornkitti, MD, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

While most forms of lung cancer are highly malignant, there is an exception in the case of pulmonary alveolar cell carcinoma.

กรกฎาคม - กันยายน 2566