Sentences with phrase «among nonsmokers»

Radon is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers.

For any given number of adverse childhood experiences, recent problems with depressed affect were more common among smokers than among nonsmokers.

I have seen many more cases of lung cancer among nonsmokers than smokers in the thousands of patients I have cared for over the past thirty years, but that doesn't negate the studies done on the subject that show only about 15 % of lung cancer cases occur in nonsmokers.

Taking the vitamin lowered risk of pneumonia by 69 percent among nonsmokers who exercise, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Epidemiology.

Future prospective studies including adults of all ages are needed to confirm these finding related to e-cigarette use among nonsmokers and former smokers, and to determine the role of e-cigarettes on relapse of smoking,» adds Dr. Choi.

This supports policy and educational interventions designed to decrease the use of e-cigarettes among nonsmokers.»

These include 46,000 heart attack deaths and 3,400 lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke.

However, more recent studies suggest an elevated risk still exists among nonsmokers in Western populations (Carpenter et al 2013).

Not exact matches

«The study showed that 2.9 % of baseline nonsmokers in this U.S. regional sample of young adults reported ever using e-cigarettes at follow - up, suggesting an interest in e-cigarettes among nonsmoking young adults,» explains Dr. Choi.

«Our findings suggest that clinicians who treat e-cigarette users should counsel them both about their potential for harm and about the high risk of transitioning to tobacco cigarettes among initial nonsmokers.»

Specifically, the follow - up study found that 7.4 % of participants who had never used an e-cigarette at baseline reported subsequently using an e-cigarette, with 21.6 % among baseline current smokers, 11.9 % among baseline former smokers, and 2.9 % among baseline nonsmokers reporting use.

Among the 251 participants (131 daily smokers and 120 nonsmokers), 65.7 percent were men and they were an average age of 48.

However, marijuana use was nearly four times more common among cigarette smokers versus nonsmokers, the findings showed.

«If you showed in a similar study with a gold standard outcome [like spirometry], among smokers and nonsmokers, that you could affect the incidence of COPD, I would imagine the committees that meet on this would take a serious look at increasing daily recommended intake [of vitamin E] for the general population,» he says.

Moreover, even among teenagers who managed to finish high school as nonsmokers and nonparents, the level of personal self - control they had achieved as children still explained variation in their health, finances, and crime when they reached their thirties.