Sentences with phrase «low use of tobacco»

One initiative is known to have a real effect on teen substance abuse — multi-pronged and aggressive public campaigns aimed at teens, such as the ones that have led to historically low use of tobacco and alcohol, Volkow said.

Not exact matches

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

Epidemiology studies have linked low sperm counts not only to aging but also to being too fat, being too thin, lack of exercise, excessive exercise, junk food, soda, exposure to toxins in food and air, and use of both prescription and nonprescription drugs, including tobacco and alcohol.

«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.»

For non-pregnant women, insurance coverage resulted in higher odds of alcohol use but lower odds of using tobacco.

The findings showed that pregnant women with insurance coverage had lower odds of alcohol use in the past month; however the odds of tobacco use were not affected.

«To describe electronic cigarette use as «a new drug use option» and part of «at - risk teenagers» substance using repertoires» is unnecessarily alarmist, given the evidence that regular use among never smokers is negligible, the lack of evidence that electronic cigarette use acts as a gateway to tobacco use, and the likely low level of harm associated with electronic cigarette use.»

For this research, the scientists analyzed data like cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI, blood sugar, diet and exercise, alcohol intake, and tobacco use from more than 3,000 of the individuals to determine healthy lifestyle factors and a low cardiovascular disease risk profile.

Within this group, there was a fifty percent increased risk of low birth weight regardless of concomitant tobacco use.

The cost for the benchmark plan is based on the second lowest cost Silver plan available on the exchange to cover the individual's entire household based on their age, rating area, and number of people in the family (but not adjusted for tobacco use).

The decision to use civil Rico versus criminal for tobacco was not made to «soften» the sanctions but rather to meet the lower standard of evidence.

While the US has reduced youth cigarette smoking rates to record lows, efforts to reduce overall youth tobacco use have been undermined by the popularity of e-cigarettes and cigars, which are marketed in a wide array of sweet flavors that attract kids.

One easy way of improving your chances and lowering your premiums are to cut out any tobacco that you currently use.

If you use cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco or snuff there has been a lot of changes in the industry to offer lower rates.

Individuals with pre-existing health conditions or poor habits like tobacco use tend to have significantly lower life expectancies than their healthy counterparts, increasing their likelihood of early death and making them comparatively expensive to insure.

However, if you're looking for life insurance rates for smokers, it is important to understand you may not receive the lowest available rates because of the health risks associated with tobacco use.

Also keep in mind that there are insurance companies that will take into consideration if someone is a light smoker or uses other forms of tobacco such as cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco for a lower premium than a classic cigarette smoker.

Term life insurance for smoker's is another case in point where your agent is going to have to run a pre-screen to see who will offer you the lowest rates for whatever form of tobacco products you use.

Life insurance applicants in North Dakota (34.8 %), Vermont (28.6 %) and Kansas (27.2 %) have much higher rates of tobacco use than the national average (20.5 %), while applicants in Utah (8.2 %), Idaho (8.2 %) and Hawaii (8.9 %) have much lower rates.

Life insurance applicants, on average, have lower rates of high cholesterol (25 % less than national average), tobacco use (22 %), high blood pressure (14.4 %), diabetes (7.1 %), sleep apnea (4.2 %), asthma (3.6 %) and depression (0.7 %).

Because there are so few factors that go into calculating your insurance premiums, there is not much that you can do to get lower coverage (aside from comparing quotes from dozens of companies), but one thing that you can do is eliminate any tobacco that you currently use.

«Not increase youth tobacco use»: A majority of the voting panel members agreed that PMI demonstrated a «low» likelihood that youth «never smokers» would become established IQOS users.

«Result in large number of smokers quitting»: The panel unanimously concluded that PMI demonstrated a «low» likelihood that former smokers would re-initiate tobacco use with the IQOS system.

Our use of tobacco is amongst the lowest in the world — although when a social determinants lens is placed on the 12 per cent of people who smoke we can see the high levels amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, those who are incarcerated and refugees.

The results of the current study with regards to gender differences in adolescent DSH / SA are consistent with previous findings, in that adolescent girls showed a higher prevalence of DSH5 28 and SA.7 29 30 With respect to the personality characteristics, low self - esteem has been associated with both DSH4 and SA.29 Cross-sectional surveys of adolescents have consistently found that depression is strongly correlated with DSH4 5 and SA.29 30 Tobacco smoking has also been previously identified to be a risk factor for DSH5 31 and SA, 32 33 along with alcohol use for DSH5 28 31 and SA.32 33 When we analysed the data according to gender, we found that tobacco smoking and alcohol use were especially important risk factors for DSH / SA in girls (tables 2 and 3).

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Poor impulsivity and other factors such as female gender, low self - esteem, poor academic performance, depression and tobacco / alcohol use were significant risk factors in the final model of adolescent DSH.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Long - term tobacco use following pregnancy also results in poorer maternal health, which an extensive body of research shows is intricately linked with economic trends, educational opportunities, and productivity.56 Women's lower wages, unemployment, and lost productivity resulting from these risk factors add up to high costs that home visiting can help alleviate.57 With 42 percent of mothers in the United States being breadwinners, home visiting programs are critically important to support not only their health but also their and their families» economic well - being.58

Over the past 25 years, program developers, school districts, universities and independent research firms have conducted program evaluations which indicate that the Lions Quest program improves achievement test scores, changes attitudes and beliefs regarding substance abuse and violence, lowers rates of disciplinary problems, lowers risk of dropping out of school and decreases use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

Tobacco use during pregnancy is associated with low birthweight and adverse perinatal health outcomes.2, 3 In children, exposure to second - hand smoke (SHS) from tobacco contributes to lower respiratory tract illness, otitis media and chronic middle ear effusion, 4,5 and is associated with an increased risk of childhood asthma.6, 7

The objective of the present study was twofold: first, using latent transition analysis (Lanza et al. 2009), we tested whether the relevant groups found in previous studies (e.g., Flory et al. 2004; Moffitt et al. 2002), i.e., those with an early onset, a late onset, and no onset or low levels of risk behavior could be identified, while using a developmental model of a single, underlying construct (constituted by tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use and externalizing behavior problems).