Sentences with phrase «own first cigarette»

«Because almost 90 % of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to cigarettes and allow more currently addicted smokers to quit,» the agency wrote in a release.

«Because almost 90 % of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to cigarettes and allow more currently addicted smokers to quit,» the agency wrote.

While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast line, the smoke rose from first cigarettes, and one large man groaned off the floor, breath harsh, a map of beet - red lines high on his cheeks» he strains but can not bend enough to reach his feet.

For many people, the first taste of beer is not pleasing — just as happens with the first cigarette.

While volunteers began to poke the guests awake, collect the mats, and fix the coffee for the breakfast line, the smoke rose from first cigarettes, and one large man groaned off the floor, breath harsh, a map of beet - red lines....

I also had my first cigarette there, under a bridge that covered a small stream near Wilson Street.

Most people don't take up smoking for no reason; usually, there's something that triggers them to try their first cigarette.

«We have an obligation as policymakers and influencers to protect our youth from the lifelong health problems associated with picking up that first cigarette,» wrote Michael Seilback, vice president for public policy and communications for the American Lung Association in the Northeast.

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.

Nearly nine out of 10 smokers tried their first cigarette by age 18.

Joseph R. DiFranza describes how that might be possible in «Hooked From the First Cigarette.»

Yet, in 1994 he found himself lighting up his own first cigarette.

And, every morning of our smoking life, that healing process started until bam, our first cigarette, reinjuring our lungs with every puff, just like we can reinjure our arteries with every bite, when all we had to do all along — the miracle cure — is just stop re-damaging ourselves, get out of the way, and let our bodies» natural healing process bring us back towards health.

Every morning of our smoking life, that healing process started until, wham, our first cigarette of the day, re-injuring our lungs with every puff.

A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys» games on a frozen lake; of «nightcreeping» through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid - fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power - hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow - motion divorce in four seasons.

Through the beautiful prose of his narration, we join Jason in boyish adventures and coming - of - age rituals (first cigarette, initiation rites, first kiss), and we learn of his ambitions (poetry, forestry) and his anxieties (stammering, the Falklands war, his parents» relationship, girls).

It may be the first cigarette you've ever had, or that occasional cigar you smoke when you're out with your buddies, and the insurance companies will not care.

Smokers who had their first cigarette within a half hour of waking up were 1.59 times more likely to develop head and neck cancer.

«Those who wait longer before having their first cigarette apparently face a lower risk of cancers.»

Not exact matches

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.

But within the same time frame, their model suggested that as many as 168,000 young people who'd never previously smoked cigarettes started smoking regularly after vaping for the first time.

«According to Nielsen, U.S. cigarette volumes shrank by 6 percent in the first quarter, substantially worse than expected, and Spielman ascribes the difference to Juul.»

Cook said that the services business is akin to a Fortune 100 company, theoretically on par with corporate heavyweights like Twenty - First Century Fox and cigarette giant Philip Morris.

«My first few documentaries on vanishing tribes, I didn't realize that you have to bring a lot of cigarettes,» Bell says.

CVS was the first major retail pharmacy to remove the sale of cigarettes from all of its stores.

In the first quarter of this year, its cigarette shipment volumes fell by 11.5 % year - on - year, but its heated tobacco shipments were up almost ten-fold — overall, unit shipments were down 9.4 % and net revenues were down 1.4 %.

First, in 2009 there was an increase in federal tobacco tax.35 The national cigarette tax increased by 158 %, resulting in an immediate reduction in cigarette uptake among US adolescents.35 In our study we found a small but statistically significant increase in quit attempts among US adults, from 39.9 % in 2006 - 07 to 41.4 % in 2010 - 11 (fig 2, top panel).

On Monday, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau reported that cigarette shipments for the first half of 2015 have increased from the same period the previous year.

Neither one of us smoked cigarettes until we were a few months into our first pastorates — tiny, rural churches staffed by us city boys straight out of seminary.

First, about half of the nation's ten largest daily newspapers voluntarily stopped taking cigarette ads.

By lunchtime on the first day we'd done a deal with eVapor Electronic Cigarettes.

His first job at the winery was to pick up cigarette butts in the parking lot at age six.

... One key to the stellar play of Hornets center Vlade Divac (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game through Sunday): He gave up his habit of 10 to 15 cigarettes a day... After being traded twice in three days last month — from the Mavericks to the Nets to the Lakers — swingman George McCloud made only nine field goals in his first nine games with L.A. Twice this season with Dallas he made nine field goals in one game... «The pick - and - roll has been killing us,» says Kings guard Mitch Richmond.

He sneaks a cigarette on this newly nicotine - free campus and explains that if you've been around the pro game long enough, with all its me - first money - grubbers, you'll welcome the college game, no matter how win - oriented it may have become.

An irate Arsenal fan, part of a growing contingent calling for Wenger's dismissal, runs over to the dug - out to angrily remonstrate with the manager; in the aftermath, Wojciech Szczesny sparks up a cigarette in the showers and is disciplined by the club, losing his first - team place.

• A father's involvement in the pregnancy increases the likelihood that a woman will receive prenatal care in her first trimester by 40 percent and reduces her cigarette consumption by 36 percent (Martin et al, 2007).

Asked by the owner of the Waldorf Astoria cigarette factory, located in Stuttgart, Germany, to establish a school for company employees, Steiner created the first of his schools, Die Freie Waldorfschule (the Free Waldorf School) after establishing four conditions.

Relation of infant feeding practices, cigarette smoke exposure, and group child care to the onset and duration of otitis media with effusion in the first two years of life.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and the SNI have had varying disagreements over collecting revenue from cigarette sales on reservations and the casino gambling amendment, which won first passage this past March.

«So it's great if we can delay the possibility of them picking up a cigarette for the first time.»

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the new Cigarette Strike Force targeting illegal tobacco trafficking and sales has already seized nearly $ 1.7 million in cash and contraband that includes 2.7 million cigarettes and cigars in its first six months.

Suffolk County is poised to be the first county nationwide keeping cigarettes out of the hands of teens as the county legislature approved a measure which will raise the age one can purchase tobacco products from 19 to 21 Tuesday night.

Cigarettes first began to be consumed on a large scale in the UK after 1854 when the first factory was opened.

«Let me reach for a cigarette first of all in defiant response to that,» he quipped in a recent Guardian interview when asked what he thought of his nickname of «inaction man» in contrast to the swashbuckling Paddy Ashdown.

It's not the first unexpected thing to crop up for City Hall in Mr. de Blasio's inaugural year, nor is it unrelated to another unforeseen circumstance: the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.

«Just like the [Surgeon General's] warning that you see on the side of cigarette packs have changed the perception of smoking, these gun warnings are the first step to changing the public's conversation,» said Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, a co-sponsor of the gun bill.

«The moment that I seized upon was the mayor making an announcement — a very significant, first - in - the - nation bill that he wanted to advance — regarding hiding cigarettes [at retail points of sale],» said Gennaro.

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.

-- With Florida facing a shrinking population for the first time since World War II, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and the GOP - controlled Legislature balanced a $ 5.9 billion shortfall with cuts, federal stimulus money and tax hikes, including a $ 1 - a-pack tax increase on cigarettes.

Further, in 2013, 2.1 million people smoked cigarettes for the first time, half of which were under the age of 18.