Sentences with phrase «days than cigarettes»

Their staple products, soda pop and potato chips, are only slightly less demonized these days than cigarettes.

Not exact matches

In fact, according to the researchers, the health risk of having few friends was similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than being obese or not exercising in terms of decreasing your lifespan.

Loneliness actually has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, which makes it even more dangerous than obesity, says Cigna, citing a 2010 report.

During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one pack of cigarettes every day, eats only at fast - food take - outs, and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

The effects of nicotine on your milk and your baby decrease significantly if you can keep to less than 15 cigarettes a day.

However, «The Breastfeeding Answer Book» notes that «if a mother smokes fewer than 20 cigarettes a day, the risks to her baby from the nicotine in her milk are small.»

The levels of carbon monoxide in the seals» blood was comparable to that of «someone who is smoking more than 40 cigarettes a day,» Tift says.

Women's heart disease risk was more than doubled with one cigarette per day, when only studies that controlled for several factors were included in the analysis.

Individual studies have reported that smoking only one to five cigarettes per day is associated with a higher than expected risk of heart disease.

They found that men who smoked one cigarette per day had 46 % of the excess risk of heart disease and 41 % of the excess risk of stroke associated with smoking 20 cigarettes per day (much higher than the expected 5 %).

Smoking just one cigarette a day has a much higher risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke than expected — about half the risk of smoking 20 per day — concludes a review of the evidence published by The BMJ today.

Additionally, adolescents who smoked both conventional cigarettes and e-cigarettes smoked more cigarettes per day than non-e-cigarette users.

For smoking frequency, Asian men on average smoked 2.5 more cigarettes per day than Asian women, compared with 1.5 more cigarettes per day that Latino men smoked than Latino women.

The authors found that the most cost - effective scenario was annual screening between ages 55 and 75 years old for persons who smoked more than 40 pack - years (the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has smoked) and who quit less than 10 years ago (or currently smoke).

For the study, researchers conducted brain scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.

Children shown the adverts were no more or less likely than the control group to perceive tobacco smoking as appealing and all three groups understood that smoking more than ten cigarettes a day was harmful.

This is partly due to frequency: If someone smokes a pack a day and takes 10 drags off each cigarette, thats 200 drags a day — or more than 70,000 each year.

Smoking a pack a day more than doubles your risk of a heart attack, and the single act of throwing away your cigarettes will come with a huge payoff: Just one year after quitting, the extra threat smoking posed to your heart will be cut by half.

(If you smoke less than 10 cigarettes a day, you're probably not addicted, and you should talk to your doctor about another course of action to deal with the habit.)

That means that 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years takes more than nine months off your life.

Smokers and ex-smokers are more likely to get MS than people who never smoked, and the more cigarettes you've had, the greater your chances (people who smoke at least two packs a day have a fivefold greater risk).

A person who smokes 10 or more cigarettes a day for 10 years is more likely to develop deep wrinkles and sagging skin than a non-smoker.

Studies show that people who smoke 20 cigarettes a day have 40 % less Vitamin C in their blood than non-smokers.

Public Health England has found that e-cigarettes are around 95 % safer than smoking regular cigarettes, so if you make the switch to e-cigs as part of your attempts to quit altogether, you'll start reaping the health benefits from day one.

People throw away more than that on cigarettes and fast food in a day... truly worthless crap.

Did you know that people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than non-smokers?

Imagine going to work each day knowing you could be assaulted by fists, rocks, or lit cigarettes; knowing you would be assaulted by verbal insults that scarred more deeply than those physical assaults ever did.

It costs less to own a Miata than a 2 - pack a day cigarette habit, and it is much better for your lungs.

Images of everyday things like eyeglasses and cigarette packs appear larger - than - life, creating cinematic inversions of foreground and background in which otherwise unremarkable objects take on a looming (and often sharply comical) significance.Info: David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., Los Angeles, Duration: 9/9-21 / 10/17, Days & Hours: Tue - Sat 10:00 - 18:00, http://davidkordanskygallery.com

Tobacco users who smoke less than five cigarettes a day can have the beginning signs of cardiovascular disease.

Even tobacco users who smoke less than five cigarettes a day can have the beginning signs of cardiovascular disease.

Occasional, or «social», smokers are defined as smokers who do not smoke every day, or who smoke on average less than one cigarette per day.

Non-parents are also 73 % more likely than parents to say they «never» eat at fast food restaurants and 38 % more likely to exercise at a gym once a week or more; while parents are 17 % more likely to say they never exercise, 10 % more likely to consider themselves overweight, and 54 % more likely to smoke cigarettes every day, Dick reveals.

Tobacco use was measured by the question «How many cigarettes did you smoke on average in the last 4 weeks (7 categories: never smoked, did not smoke in the last 4 weeks, less than 1 cigarette a day, 1 — 5, 6 — 10, 11 — 20, more than 20 cigarettes a day).

Someone who smokes a pack a day would therefore pay more than $ 550 in cigarette taxes annually in South Dakota.