Sentences with phrase «more than cigarette»

Since the demand curve for cigarettes is relatively inelastic (people keep buying them no matter the price — within reason), the company can raise prices more than cigarette tax increases, and increase its margins in the process.

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.

Among the roughly 15,500 adults the researchers looked at, those who said they used e-cigs daily were far more likely to have quit regular cigarettes than the people who said they'd never tried e-cigs.

Philip Morris International has tried to force the University of Stirling to hand over secret data into teenage smoking and cigarette packaging gathered over more than a decade.

The first large and comprehensive review of all the published research on e-cigs added some additional weight to that conclusion, finding «substantial evidence» that young people who vape are more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes than those who don't.

Dying from cigarettes is infinitely more likely than from Ebola.

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.

More than three - quarters of black adolescent and young adult smokers use Newports, a menthol cigarette produced by Lorillard, according to a 2004 study.

Our company's mission is to eliminate cigarettes and help the more than one billion smokers worldwide switch to a better alternative.

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.

His Williams is «a worldly-wise publisher... more at home with a cigarette and a sandwich in a Ludgate Hill wine bar than with the pipe - smoke and claret of an Oxford common room.»

I'd go a step further and suggest that breastfeeding is considerably * more * natural than smoking a cigarette or using a phone.

I think the key is that the story of «cigarette through jumper» is simpler, clearer and more compelling than «cigarette is pushed into the jumper and vanishes».

Modern's wholesale distribution business offers more than 5,500 cigarette, tobacco and grocery SKUs.

Children who grow up poor are more likely to smoke cigarettes than those from wealthier families, according to research.

Marijuana drug use is up and is used by teens of both sexes more frequently than smoking cigarettes.

More than likely, they will make a pair of cigarette or straight - legged jeans that fit your body well.

More than anything else, you may feel your motivation slip away as soon as your baby is born, says Pamela Pletsch, an associate professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina who develops programs to help pregnant women and new mothers give up cigarettes.

Wilmette bans smoking at the beachfront, pool and outdoor amphitheater, but Park District officials are considering whether to prohibit cigarettes at any park event attended by more than 20 people, said Thomas Grisamore, executive director of the Wilmette Park District.

And an analysis of 12,069 women found that women who smoked pot and cigarettes during pregnancy were more likely to have babies with smaller heads and low birth weight than woman who just smoked cigarettes (though the risk was high for women who smoked cigarettes too).

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Stephen Pound, MP for Ealing Acton reportedly chided women protesting at the sums they would lose, saying «It's no more than the price of a couple of packets of cigarettes.»

And it argues: «More than any other single thing, the cigarette has blighted the health and shortened the lives of people in Scotland for over a century.

Of the major taxes, sales tax collections are projected to be $ 350 million more than original estimates, individual income by $ 265 million, corporate income taxes by $ 214 million and cigarette taxes by $ 52 million.

(For that reason, the comptroller estimates, more than half of all cigarettes consumed in the state are smuggled from elsewhere.)

MPs are being warned to curb the sale of «electronic cigarettes» following fears they could be much more dangerous than previously thought.

Law enforcement nabbed a Virginia man attempting to smuggle more than a half million cigarettes into Brooklyn.

With the rules that were more than two years in the making, the agency is expanding its authority over e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah tobacco, in much the same way it already regulates traditional cigarettes.

The New York state attorney general says FedEx Corp. has cost the state more than $ 10 million by unlawfully shipping contraband cigarettes to consumers.

Coupled with the ban on claiming welfare entitlements for the first two years of residence, there is, as Jack Straw said more than ten years ago, barely a cigarette paper separating Labour and Tory policy on immigration.

A New York «cigarette strike force» has seized more than 1.5 Million illegal cigars — a 476 percent increase from last year...

Some New York state and Westchester County lawmakers are looking to put the same age restrictions on cigarettes and other tobacco products as has been on alcohol for more than 30 years.

The contraband included more than 1.5 million illegal cigars and 47,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes.

The report estimates more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high schoolers smoke cigarettes.

Fewer than 20,000 Indians live on reservations in New York, yet in 2007 reservation stores sold more than 30 million cartons — six billion cigarettes with a retail value of nearly $ 2 billion.

NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the conviction of Basel Ramadan, the ring leader of a criminal enterprise that flooded New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County with more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes illegally imported from Virginia.

Examining more than 20 years of national data for U.S. adolescents, a research team led by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that adolescents have high prevalence of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, and concerning rates of suicide - related thoughts and behaviors.

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, with more people dying from nicotine addiction than any other preventable cause of death.

While e-cigarettes don't contain the harmful tars found in cigarettes, the devices still contain harmful diluents and nicotine, a substance more addictive than heroin, she says.

The study, led by Mark Pletcher of the University of California, San Francisco, compared the effects of both cigarette and marijuana smoking over a period of 20 years in a group of more than 5,000 adults, part of a longitudinal study called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA).

However, cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 were 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than youth who do not use cigarettes.

In July the FDA said it was «likely» that menthol cigarettes posed a greater health risk than normal cigarettes, because they encourage young people to take up smoking, make it more difficult to quit and increase addiction.

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».

Smokers told that they had high self - control exposed themselves to significantly more temptation than their counterparts — opting on average to watch the movie while holding a cigarette — and they failed to resist lighting up three times as often as those told they had low self - control.

Despite the intrigue surrounding Litvinenko's death, the poison that killed him, a rare radioactive isotope called polonium 210, is far more widespread than many of us realize: people worldwide smoke almost six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount of polonium 210 to the lungs.

«Cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users: Strongest relationship between cigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smokerCigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users: Strongest relationship between cigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smokercigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smokers.»

Sept. 20: Packing list for a beach trip: sunscreen, towel, garbage bags... Last year's International Coastal Cleanup collected more than 12 million pounds of trash — including more than 2 million cigarette butts.

Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18 months as their peers who do not vape, according to new University of Pittsburgh research.

«Participants who agreed e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking and those who agreed that e-cigarettes are less harmful than cigarettes were more likely than those who did not agree to subsequently report experimenting with e-cigarettes.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.