Sentences with phrase «become cigarette 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.

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.

«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.

Former smokers, for instance, can become ill if they try a cigarette after having not smoked for a certain amount of time.

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.

Among their concerns: e-cigs might lure former smokers back to conventional cigarettes, expose users and bystanders alike to unidentified dangers, or become a gateway for teens who might subsequently experiment with tobacco products and other drugs.

Young people who don't smoke but try an electronic cigarette are indeed more likely to become smokers, but those people are probably also more likely to become smokers even if without e-cigarettes.

I was a cigarette smoker for a few years and was able to put it down through the process of becoming an athlete.

With ever increasing laws and regulations on not only the taxation of cigarettes, but bans on public usage, vaping is becoming a go - to method for smokers.

Smoking a cigarette yields 0.5 - 2.0 mg of nicotine to the smoker but eating the cigarette (or other nicotine product) is a whole different ballgame as all of the nicotine becomes available for absorption into the body.

By the mid-1960s the «Marlboro Man», as this figure became known, was so recognisable and brand - identified that Philip Morris was able to drop all direct references to cigarettes in its ads in favour of subtly alluring smokers to come, and be part of, the epic Western landscape of «Marlboro Country».

With vape culture on the rise, it seems like electronic cigarettes are becoming one of the more popular methods for smokers to begin the process of