Sentences with phrase «in cigarette smokers»

Regardless, multiple studies report that experienced E-cig users often attain serum cotinine concentrations that are similar to those levels found in cigarette smokers, and thus our exposure mirrored these E-cig users.

Now researchers have reported that an advanced degree of coronary atherosclerosis is more common in cigarette smokers than in nonsmokers, and that it increases with the amount of smoking.»

Research has already shown that immune response provided by nasal mucous membranes is compromised in cigarette smokers, which causes them to be more susceptible to the outcomes of a viral infection, said Ilona Jaspers, deputy director of the Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her new research revealed even more immune suppression effects in e-cigarette users than in smokers of traditional cigarettes.

Watercress extract taken multiple times a day significantly inhibits the activation of a tobacco - derived carcinogen in cigarette smokers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), partner with UPMC CancerCenter, demonstrated in a phase II clinical trial presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

The concern about e-cigarette use stems from the increased risk of complications after plastic surgery in cigarette smokers.

Early termination of breastfeeding in cigarette smokers was also shown by Hill and Aldag.14 They noted that mothers who smoked cited insufficient milk as a reason for a decline in breastfeeding.

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.

«If smokers switch to electronic cigarettes or other products that can be shown to cut the risks to their health, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

«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.

Plain cigarette packaging could lead to fewer smokers, but fewer smokers would mean a significant drop in revenue, requiring other taxes to increase or government spending to decrease.

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.

Think of people declining to get tested for the genetic markers of a hereditary disease, or a smoker whose cigarette packs might as well have that warning from the Surgeon General printed in invisible ink.

In this third stage the self leaves sin but can not forget it, just as a cigarette smoker who gives up smoking still finds in his heart a desire to smokIn this third stage the self leaves sin but can not forget it, just as a cigarette smoker who gives up smoking still finds in his heart a desire to smokin his heart a desire to smoke.

There's nothing arrogant about saying I'm not interested in the middle - aged men who aren't interested in dating in their age group, just like it's not arrogant to say I'm not interested dating meth addicts or cigarette smokers.

Studies show that a baby's risk of SIDS rises with each additional smoker in the household, with the number of cigarettes smoked around her each day, and with the length of her exposure to cigarette smoke.

A properly labelled cigarette in Ghana must be in English Language warning smokers of the health risks they were taking.

Chief executive Maureen Moore said ending cigarette displays in shops would «not just stop children from starting smoking, it will also support older smokers who are trying to quit».

Smokers in Scotland were barred from lighting up in public places in March, but the working group yesterday proposed 31 new measures to tackle smoking, including a ban on the display of cigarettes.

Riccardo Polosa, professor of Medicine at Catania University, did a study for the Italian Non-Smoking Association which found that 55 % of the 40 committed smokers in his experiment had significantly reduced or eliminated their use of tobacco cigarettes by the electronic alternative.

In blind taste tests, most smokers can't tell the difference between brands of cigarette.

Instead, more smokers are buying cigarettes in ways that avoid New York's $ 4.35 per pack tax, the highest in the nation.

Daily cannabis use increased most rapidly among former cigarette smokers (2.80 percent in 2014 versus 0.98 percent in 2002).

The increase in daily cannabis use was faster among non-daily cigarette smokers relative to daily cigarette smokers.

Individuals who reported smoking 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and no cigarettes in the past 30 days were grouped as former smokers.

In 2011, a report from the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee concluded that «there is strong evidence indicating that adolescent menthol cigarette smokers are more dependent on nicotine than adolescent non-menthol cigarette smokers».

«It is conceivable that this stunted decline in cigarette use is owing, in part, to the substantial increase in daily cannabis use among smokers,» observed Goodwin.

In 2014, 28 percent of daily cigarette smokers and 13 percent of non-daily cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 used cannabis daily, suggesting that 40 percent of 12 to 17 year olds who smoke cigarettes used cannabis daily in 201In 2014, 28 percent of daily cigarette smokers and 13 percent of non-daily cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 used cannabis daily, suggesting that 40 percent of 12 to 17 year olds who smoke cigarettes used cannabis daily in 201in 2014.

Not surprisingly, cigarette smoke emerged as a major source of airborne particles in homes with smokers, but cleaning products, candles, frying food and marijuana smoking also jumped out as in - home air polluters.

The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, found that a majority of smokers and nonsmokers who responded to a randomized telephone survey said they supported increasing warning sizes to cover 25 percent, 50 percent, and as much as 75 percent of cigarette packs.

Health warnings cover about 10 percent of a cigarette pack's exterior surface in the United States, but there is broad support, even among smokers, for making them significantly larger, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study has found.

«Furthermore, high rates of dual use may result in greater total public health burden and possibly increased individual risk if a smoker maintains an even low - level tobacco cigarette addiction for many years instead of quitting.»

In all, 20 percent of the smokers reported that they had stopped smoking conventional cigarettes if they used e-cigarettes, compared with 10.1 percent using over-the-counter nicotine replacement aids and just 15.4 percent who went cold turkey.

Over 35 percent of the daily smokers in the condition that showed vaping reported having a tobacco cigarette during the study versus 22 percent of daily smokers who saw ads without vaping, and about 23 percent of daily smokers who did not see any advertising.

«The findings are consistent with recent, broader research that smokers were more likely to correctly identify that cigarette brands are equally harmful and similar in prestige after plain packaging was implemented,» said Dr. Maddox.

But smokers and former smokers are rarely asked precisely how long they smoked and how many cigarettes a day they consumed at every point in their lives.

«We know that exposure to smoking cues such as visual depictions of cigarettes, ashtrays, matches, lighters, and smoke heightens smokers» urge to smoke a cigarette, and decreases former smokers» confidence in their ability to refrain from smoking a cigarette,» said Dr. Maloney.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

In the long - term analysis, results showed that the smokers were more likely to trade in their tobacco cigarettes for e-cigs and taper off their tobacco usIn the long - term analysis, results showed that the smokers were more likely to trade in their tobacco cigarettes for e-cigs and taper off their tobacco usin their tobacco cigarettes for e-cigs and taper off their tobacco use.

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.

Smokers no longer derive a sense of identity from cigarette brands after plain packaging rule was introduced in Australia, helping them to kick the habit

In all, cigarette smokers who switch to e-cigarettes could live 86.7 million more years with policies that encourage cigarette smokers to switch completely to e-cigarettes.

While observational analyses among current smokers showed a body weight increase of 0.5 kg per 10 cigarettes smoked daily, genetic analysis in contrast showed that double carriers of the high smoking genotype had a 1.2 kg lower body weight.

«In situations when smokers are drinking alcohol, it tends to trigger cravings for a cigarette,» explained Melissa J. Krauss, senior statistical data analyst at Washington University School of Medicine as well as corresponding author for the study.

«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.

For example, Missouri has the lowest cigarette excise tax in the country and weak statewide clean indoor air laws, and we have 50 percent more smokers than New York, which has the highest cigarette tax and strong clean indoor air laws.»

Study authors said additional studies will examine whether it is better for smokers to reduce nicotine intake gradually or immediately and whether use of a transdermal nicotine patch in tandem with low - nicotine cigarettes further reduces cigarette use and dependence.

Discover magazine uses a 2006 neuroimaging study to argue that cigarette health warnings spark cravings in smokers, rather than scaring them away.

Ten years after cigarettes were banished from all UK pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants, new figures from Cancer Research UK today (Saturday) reveal there are 1.9 million fewer smokers in Britain compared to when the smoking ban was introduced in 2007, with smoking rates now the lowest ever recorded.