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adult cigarette smokers and nonsmokers.
«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of
adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
Not exact matches
A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070
adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become
smokers of conventional
cigarettes.
«Because almost 90 % of
adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first
cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to
cigarettes and allow more currently addicted
smokers to quit,» the agency wrote in a release.
«In order to successfully address
cigarette addiction, we must make it possible for current
adult smokers who still seek nicotine to get it from alternative and less harmful sources.»
«Because almost 90 % of
adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first
cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to
cigarettes and allow more currently addicted
smokers to quit,» the agency wrote.
However, around 40 million American
adults still count themselves as
smokers, according to the C.D.C., and three in 10
cigarettes are smoked by someone with mental illness.
More than three - quarters of black adolescent and young
adult smokers use Newports, a menthol
cigarette produced by Lorillard, according to a 2004 study.
Adult smokers who can't quit or use approved cessation methods should be encouraged to switch to electronic
cigarettes, the American Cancer Society advises.
Hey, and then we can get the anti-smoking crowd off the backs of the
smokers when they state that they want to raise the taxes on
cigarettes so that
adult smokers will want to stop smoking.
Vincent Martello, director of community health with the Ulster County Health Department, said that by increasing the age to purchase
cigarettes, the county can reduce the possibility that today's youth will become tomorrow's
adult smokers.
An estimated 17.8 % of
adults (20.5 % of men; 15.3 % of women) were
cigarette smokers in 2013, a drop from 23.5 % in 1999.
«Higher
cigarette prices also increase the likelihood of smoking cessation among
adult smokers: every 10 - percent increase in
cigarette prices leads to a two - percent reduction in the number of people who smoke.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, almost 20 percent of U.S.
adults 18 years or older are
cigarette smokers.
Studying data from 2,871 smoking and nonsmoking young
adults, ages 18 - 34, Dr. Olivia A. Wackowski and Dr. Cristine D. Delnevo found that a quarter of young
adults believed hookah to be less risky than
cigarettes — a belief shared by current
cigarette smokers and those who had never smoked
cigarettes before.
Electronic
cigarettes are widely promoted and used to help
smokers quit traditional
cigarettes, but a new analysis from UC San Francisco found that
adult smokers who use e-
cigarettes are actually 28 percent less likely to stop smoking
cigarettes.
In their analysis, the UCSF team reviewed 38 studies assessing the association between e-
cigarette use and
cigarette cessation among
adult smokers.
Based on available evidence, Dartmouth researchers quantified the balance of health benefits and harms associated with e-
cigarette use at the population level and found that e-cigarettes could substantially increase the number of adolescents and young
adults who eventually become
cigarette smokers.
According to the survey, 35 percent of
adult smokers perceived e-
cigarettes to be equally or more harmful than combustible
cigarettes in 2015 — a sizeable increase over the nearly 12 percent who reported that perception in 2012.
Young
adult smokers» neural response to graphic
cigarette warning labels, Darren Mays et al., Addictive Behaviors Reports, doi: 10.1016 / j.abrep.2016.02.001, published online 13 February 2016.
4/4/2007 Smoking Cessation Rates Are Up,
Cigarette Consumption Is Down, Says UCSD Study of California's Tobacco Control Program Since the advent of the California Tobacco Control Program, in 1989, the state's young
adult smokers are quitting the habit in record numbers and older
smokers are consuming far fewer
cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores C...
Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29
smokers each consumed a single
cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one
cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e -
cigarette.95 A study exposed
adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two
cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96