Sentences with phrase «of cigarettes smoked at»

The mothers of included children were on average 1.3 cm taller than those not included, whereas there were no differences in prepregnancy weight, age, level of education, and number of cigarettes smoked at conception (data not shown).

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A study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, found a presence of cancer - causing chemicals in e-cigarette users as well as people who smoked traditional cigarettes.

At one time, cigarette smoking was part of everyday office life.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

Facing a shrinking smoking population at home, the world's fourth - biggest cigarette maker this month announced it would buy an Indonesian maker of «kretek» tobacco and clove cigarettes, together with its distributor, for $ 677 million.

Among youth — who use e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults do — there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.

Thomas Laqueur of the University of California at Berkeley reviews a number of books on smoking (meaning, mainly, cigarette smoking) and concludes with this: «They are the result of a new vision of what health means, or more precisely, of what death does not mean.

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.»

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

An example... a young woman in her 20's... a new believer... coming to terms with her life, which had been one of abuse of every kind imaginable... she'd had a breakdown at 20 and was often suicidal... was standing outside church after the service... crying and smoking a cigarette.

Waitresses who had worked there since the dawn of time smoked cigarettes at the table in the corner.

For example, the amount of visible smoke in cigarette ads in magazines has constantly decreased, to the point where in 1984 and 1985 no smoke was visible at all.

Here they were, sitting under the shade of a cottonwood tree at the end of a long country driveway smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Aphesis is when we no longer have to smoke that cigarette, when we no longer have to drink that alcohol, when we no longer have to look at those images on that website or watch that show late at night, when we no longer have to spend that money on that nice pair of shoes that we don't really need.

Arsene Wenger revealed today in the press conference ahead of the home game against Stoke City on Sunday, that the keeper had apologised for apparently smoking a cigarette in the showers after the defeat at Southampton, but I wonder just how thin ice he is really on.

He developed the image of being one of the lads — at Arsenal's FA Cup victory parade three years ago he taunted Tottenham Hotspur fans — and was pictured drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.

I remember when my brother started smoking cigarettes at the age of 15 or so.

The AAP has long associated smoking with an increased risk of SIDS, but cigarette fumes may not be the only chemicals putting your child at risk.

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.

Information on socioeconomic background, maternal diseases and obstetric history, parity, gender, fetal exposure to alcohol (at least 2 drinks a week during the entire pregnancy) and cigarette smoking (at least 1 cigarette a day during the last trimester), type and duration of breastfeeding, and maternal intelligence (Raven Progressive Matrices) was obtained through questionnaires administered in person after delivery and at 13 months.

You can have miscarriages from the stress of quitting smoking so just ease off a little at a time, your baby will benefit every time youu say no for smoking that cigarette.

It has been so hard because I have smoke one or 2 times since then, I have not smoked the whole cigarette but smoked part of a cigarette, and in this time of my pregnancy I have at least done about 7 times..

A: Women who smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or take other recreational drugs are at a higher risk of having preterm babies.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Also, at this time, the developing embryo is at most risk from external toxins, making it important that pregnant women avoid the consumption of alcohol, caffeine, cigarette smoke, and certain medications to avoid harming the developing child at this crucial time.

Since the relocation of his office, which accompanied the loss of his title as «IDC leader,» there have been complaints from Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein's new neighbors at the LOB about cigarette smoke.

A British Lung Foundation survey found that 51 % of children aged 8 to 15 said that they have been exposed to cigarette smoke in a car at some point.

The City Council's health committee chairman, the sponsor of several anti-tobacco laws, regularly smoked cigarettes at the city's legislative office building, according to government sources who witnessed the smoky back - room behavior.

Under the New York Clean Indoor Air Law, New Yorkers have been successfully protected from the risks of secondhand exposure to combustible cigarette smoke when we work, shop, and dine at a restaurant.

«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to cells treated with cigarette smoke sensitize airway cells to genetic mutations known to cause lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer development.

Young people are just as likely to try electronic cigarettes as smoking, according to a new report from the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo.

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.

At the end of an 8 - month study, 21 % of all participants had stopped smoking tobacco entirely (verified via a CO test), whereas an additional 23 % reported cutting the number of tobacco cigarettes they smoked per day by half.

In the lab, the e-cigs proved to be just as effective in suppressing the craving for a smoke as tobacco cigarettes were, while the amount of exhaled carbon monoxide remained at baseline levels.

At the end of the 8 - month study, 21 % of all participants had stopped smoking tobacco entirely (verified via a CO test), whereas an additional 23 % reported cutting the number of tobacco cigarettes they smoked per day by half.

Extrapolating to the U.S. population, «105,000 12 - to 21 - year olds appear to have smoked their first cigarette because of the influence of e-cigarette advertising,» says John Pierce, a behavioral epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego.

Published in the journal Tobacco Control, the first study to model public health outcomes if cigarette smoking was replaced by e-cigarettes «supports a policy strategy that encourages replacing cigarette smoking with vaping to yield substantial life year gains,» says the study's lead author David Levy, PhD, professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi.

Those who sipped of the weed at least once a day had no signs of emphysema after five years — unlike pack - a-day cigarette smokers after one year — but marijuana smoke obstructed air passages to a similar extent, closing fine airways and restricting the larger ones.

Good genes no doubt explain why, despite smoking cigarettes for some 90 years, Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997 at 122 years of age, the longest life span yet recorded.

Fowler and her colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory found that cigarette smoke lowers levels of an enzyme called monoamine oxidase B, or MAO - B, that plays a role in the regulation of blood pressure and is critical to the functioning of multiple organs.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting here last week show how our genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation the effect of a gene that favors cigarette smoking has dwindled in some groups.

The study, led by psychology researcher Karen A. Matthews of the University of Pittsburgh, showed that men who were bullies during childhood were more likely to smoke cigarettes and use marijuana, to experience stressful circumstances, and to be aggressive and hostile at follow - up more than 20 years later.

Some environmental toxins such as cigarette smoke, ionizing radiation or some metals may contain large amounts of free radicals or encourage the body to produce more of them, according to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

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.

«It is similar to looking at, how did cigarette smoking increase the likelihood of death or the risk of cancer?»