Sentences with phrase «as daily smokers»

Adolescents who reported smoking daily at any one wave were classified as daily smokers during adolescence.

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Those who smoked 1 to 29 days of the past 30 days were categorized as current nondaily smokers, and those who smoked all 30 of the past 30 days as current daily smokers.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

In the study, 60 men and women — with half of them smokers — were given three ounces of raw watercress daily as part of a normal diet, for eight weeks.

Other life insurance companies will give you non-smoker rates if you pipe smoke only as long as no nicotine is detected in your urine test, which means you aren't a daily smoker since cotinine usually takes 1 - 3 days to leave your system.

However, despite the decrease in the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander daily smokers reported in 2012 - 13, the ABS estimates that health outcomes will continue to reflect the smoking patterns in 2002 as the damage from these high levels of smoking will take some time to dissipate.

Forty - two per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years or older were daily smokers in 2012 — 2013, 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.7 This is a decrease from 45 % in 2008 and 49 % in 2002, a similar rate of decline as among other Australians.7 In 2008, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who smoked daily were less likely than other Australians to live in homes where no one usually smoked inside (56 % v 68 %).5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers with lower household incomes were significantly more likely to live in homes where someone usually smoked inside.5

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are still 2.6 times as likely as non-Indigenous people to be current daily smokers.