Sentences with phrase «number of smokers who»

«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.

«Smoking cessation drug not boosting number of smokers who quit.»

Not exact matches

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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 %.

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.

For instance, you have the smokers and you have those who have waterbeds, light candles and forget to blow them out, and a number of other risky behaviors.

Among Indigenous women who did smoke during pregnancy, most were light smokers but tended to live with a higher number of other household smokers than did women who did not smoke during pregnancy.

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.

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 years).

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