Sentences with phrase «increasing number of smokers»

The Canadian government has not approved the sale of e-cigarettes containing nicotine, despite an increasing number of smokers using the products to help them quit or during times when smoking is not allowed.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

Not exact matches

However, for current and former smokers alike, the risk of 90 - day nonoperative readmission increased with the number of «pack - years» smoked.

New research suggests that although the number of smokers in the United States has decreased by 20 % in the past 15 years, the number of obese Americans has increased by 48 %.

«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.

«Although many countries have implemented control policies, intensified tobacco control efforts are particularly needed in countries where the number of smokers is increasing.»

This deceleration in the global trend was in part due to increases in the number of smokers since 2006 in several large countries including Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Russia.

«Overall prevalence of smoking has decreased globally, although number of smokers has increased.»

While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.

«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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.

Considering that passive smoking exposes people to the same number of tobacco toxins as active smokers, coming into contact with second - hand smoke probably increases the risk of some of all of these complications as well.

Although coffee consumption was inversely associated with diabetes, it was also positively associated with a number of behaviors that are considered unhealthy and are associated with an increased risk of death, such as tobacco smoking, 35 consumption of red meat, 36 and heavy alcohol use.37 Tobacco smoking was the strongest confounder in the multivariate analysis, and the inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality tended to be stronger among persons who had never smoked or were former smokers than among those who were current smokers, suggesting that residual confounding by smoking status, if present, attenuated the inverse associations between coffee drinking and mortality in our study.