Sentences with phrase «number of smokers in»

Our findings are consistent with those of other researchers who found that, while Indigenous women who smoke during pregnancy have low to medium nicotine dependency, 16,23 the number of smokers in the household is significantly associated with smoking among pregnant Indigenous women.24

The median number of smokers in the household was compared between women who were smokers and non-smokers during pregnancy using a Mann — Whitney U test.

The number of smokers in the household (P = 0.01) and having a smoking partner (P < 0.001, Box 3) were significantly associated with smoking.

Also, lung and liver diseases are quite common in India, given the large number of smokers in the country.

They are very popular with those who are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, and every year the number of smokers in the U.S. declines.

The number of smokers in the United States has been declining for decades and is now at an all - time low, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 %.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a series of legislative proposals aimed at reducing the number of smokers in New York City by 160,000 over the next three years.

Not exact matches

Billion - dollar lawsuits, in - your - face anti-smoking campaigns and rigid marketing restrictions have reduced the number of smokers to six million.

Therefore, McDonald's strength in numbers, and Jack in the Box's meal - deal ploy targeted at pot smokers, would appear to make a lot of sense.

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 number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

Cancer epidemiologist John Bailar of the University of Chicago points out that overall cancer mortality rates in the United States actually rose from 1971 until the early 1990s before declining slightly over the last decade, predominantly because of a decrease in the number of male smokers.

«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.

Historian Robert Proctor plans to testify as an expert witness against tobacco companies in a number of cases brought by smokers in Florida.

«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.

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.

Ilina found that the number of peaks was significantly higher in smokers and firefighters, even if the firefighters were nonsmokers.

Because most clinicians are likely to see smokers at times when a quit date in the next month is not planned, the current study indicates that prescription of varenicline with a recommendation to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day with the eventual goal of quitting could be a useful therapeutic option for this population of smokers.

Jon O. Ebbert, M.D., M.Sc., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues randomly assigned 1,510 cigarette smokers to 24 weeks of varenicline or placebo with a reduction target of 50 percent or more in number of cigarettes smoked by 4 weeks, 75 percent or more by 8 weeks, and a quit attempt by 12 weeks.

In a telephone survey of 1,000 current daily cigarette smokers, 44 percent reported a preference to quit through reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked, and 68 percent would consider using a medication to facilitate smoking reductioIn a telephone survey of 1,000 current daily cigarette smokers, 44 percent reported a preference to quit through reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked, and 68 percent would consider using a medication to facilitate smoking reductioin the number of cigarettes smoked, and 68 percent would consider using a medication to facilitate smoking reduction.

And it concludes that the availability of e-cigarettes is unlikely to account for the recent decline in number of smokers accessing stop smoking services.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.

4/4/2007 Smoking Cessation Rates Are Up, Cigarette Consumption Is Down, Says UCSD Study of California's Tobacco Control Program Since the advent of the California Tobacco Control Program, in 1989, the state's young adult smokers are quitting the habit in record numbers and older smokers are consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores C...

WHO points out that the number of smokers has declined in participating countries, but overall the worldwide count is still high.

Although great strides have been made against smoking, «there are still 40 million smokers in the U.S., so we can continue to expect large numbers of cancer deaths and heart disease as a result,» he pointed out.

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.

When it comes to human trials, a clinical study on 44 male smokers with lesions in the colon found that the subjects who took 4 grams of curcumin per day for 30 days reduced their number of lesions by 40 %.

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Just plug in such information as your age, whether you're a smoker or non-smoker and an assessment of your overall health, and the Illustrator will estimate your chances of living to specific ages (80, 85, 90, etc.) or for a given number of years (10, 20, 30, whatever).

According to this article, research done at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts demonstrated a direct link between the number of smokers living in a home and the incidence of lymphoma, or lymph node cancer, in cats.

, access to business facilities such as fax / phone, free wifi internet, the latest magazines and newspapers, showers (in the better lounges) and even conference / meeting rooms — and, if you're a smoker, some state that the smoking rooms in the VIP areas (where availavle) are much less grotty than those in economy, due to the fewer number of people using them.

Indeed, on 25 June a «freedom dinner» was held at the Savoy in London, which was apparently attended by a number of high - profile smokers including Anthony Worrall Thompson, Andrew Neil and David Hockney.

In the case of life insurance for cigar smokers, you'll also be limited in the number of cigars you're allowed to enjoy, like no more than 1 per month, or 1 per weeIn the case of life insurance for cigar smokers, you'll also be limited in the number of cigars you're allowed to enjoy, like no more than 1 per month, or 1 per weein the number of cigars you're allowed to enjoy, like no more than 1 per month, or 1 per week.

The premium is based on the type of permanent plan you elect, the amount of coverage, your current age, risk status (smokers and people in poor health or with dangerous lifestyles pay higher premiums) and the number of years that you wish to take to pay off the plan.

«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.

In the baseline survey (Wave 1) at each site, we aimed to survey samples of 50 smokers or recent ex-smokers (who had quit ≤ 12 months previously, to examine relapse) and 25 non-smokers (never - smokers and ex-smokers who had quit > 12 months previously) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, with equal numbers of men and women and in each of two age groups (18 — 34 and ≥ 35 yearsIn the baseline survey (Wave 1) at each site, we aimed to survey samples of 50 smokers or recent ex-smokers (who had quit ≤ 12 months previously, to examine relapse) and 25 non-smokers (never - smokers and ex-smokers who had quit > 12 months previously) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, with equal numbers of men and women and in each of two age groups (18 — 34 and ≥ 35 yearsin each of two age groups (18 — 34 and ≥ 35 years).

However, similar proportions of smokers in our sample and the NATSISS reported having attempted to quit in the past year, and daily smokers reported similar numbers of cigarettes smoked per day (Box 3).