Sentences with phrase «rate of cigarette»

To see the problems of Hanushek's logic, consider the following true statistics: between 1960 and 2000 the rate of cigarette smoking for females decreased by more than 30 percent while the rate of deaths by lung cancer increased by more than 50 percent over the same time period.

Because of a ridiculous opening sequence (the success of which depends upon the scientific knowledge of the smoulder - rate of a cigarette), we suspect that the little moppet's abduction and the six - digit number («Is it a phone number?»

Among these older children, the rate of cigarette smoking was surprisingly high.

Not exact matches

Now, here's a happy story: A combination of better screening, investments in drug research, and better lifestyle choices (including declines in cigarette smoking) may have helped lead to a downtick in the rate of cancer drug deaths.

Higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco products: the excise duty rate on cigarettes goes up to $ 21.56 per carton of smokes from $ 21.03, while the rates on alcohol are going up two per cent.

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.

CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals --- contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.

For instance, it has been suggested that the physical restraint associated with swaddling may prevent infants placed supine from rolling to the prone position.299 One study's results suggested a decrease in SIDS rate with swaddling if the infant was supine, 182 but it was notable that there was an increased risk of SIDS if the infant was swaddled and placed in the prone position.182 Although a recent study found a 31-fold increase in SIDS risk with swaddling, the analysis was not stratified according to sleep position.171 Although it may be more likely that parents will initially place a swaddled infant supine, this protective effect may be offset by the 12-fold increased risk of SIDS if the infant is either placed or rolls to the prone position when swaddled.182, 300 Moreover, there is no evidence that swaddling reduces bed - sharing or use of unsafe sleep surfaces, promotes breastfeeding, or reduces maternal cigarette smoking.

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.

Here's how cigarettes are taxed per pack by states with the five highest and five lowest rates as of Feb. 1.

Smoking rates have dropped in recent years, but cigarettes remain the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., and electronic cigarettes pose a new danger, says Dr. Leslie Kohman, professor of surgery and director of outreach for the Upstate Cancer Center.

In an effort to bring the city's smoking rate to its lowest ever level by 2020, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday endorsed a proposal that will raise the cost of a pack of cigarettes from $ 10.50 to $ 13, a price designed to snuff sales.

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.

The study, «Electronic Cigarette Use Among College Students: Links to Gender, Race / Ethnicity, Smoking, and Heavy Drinking» found in the Journal of American College Health connects e-cigarette use in colleges to high rates of alcohol consumption and other factors such as: gender, race / ethnicity and traditional cigarettes.

«Perceived benefits of electronic cigarettes may lead to higher experimentation rates.»

«Furthermore, high rates of dual use may result in greater total public health burden and possibly increased individual risk if a smoker maintains an even low - level tobacco cigarette addiction for many years instead of quitting.»

Though conventional cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over recent decades in the US, the report stresses that e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products and that perceptions of e-cigarettes as less harmful than traditional cigarettes can lead to increased rates of vaping.

«It's well - documented that smoking cigarettes while pregnant leads to a range of negative health effects on fetuses, including increased risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery, and greater rates of asthma and learning disabilities,» she says.

There's also no mention of regulating e-cigarette «flavorings,» such as minty or fruity flavors, which were banned from cigarettes after they were linked to elevated smoking rates among teenagers.

Similarly, people with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the general population, with estimated prevalence rates ranging between 45 to 88 per cent among people with schizophrenia, 58 to 90 per cent among those with bipolar disorder and 37 to 73 per cent among people with a major depressive disorder, compared to a rate of about 20 per cent in the general population.

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

Statistics like these emphasize the need for strategies to reduce smoking rates, and one such strategy has been the introduction of graphic warning labels (GWLs) to cigarette packaging.

Higher cigarette taxes are known to be associated with lower rates of smoking during pregnancy and improvements in some birth outcomes (including birthweight).

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...

For their analysis, Vanderbilt and Michigan researchers used public data from 1999 to 2010 to determine the association of cigarette tax and price increases over time with infant mortality rates in the United States.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates in the United States, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan released Dec. 1 in the journal Pediatrics.

California has been the consistent leader in the US by making use of public policies in reducing cigarette smoking throughout this period, and in California, there were faster decreases in smoking prevalence in comparison to rest of the US, along with declines in lung rates of cancer.

For instance, we can give smokers different concoctions containing cruciferous vegetables and measure changes in their rate of excretion of toxins from cigarette smoke (as opposed to the harmful metabolism of them within the body).

And as taxpayers, we have to pay for a smoker's personal freedom — astronomical cancer rates, the filth of cigarettes butts so carelessly tossed about, and fires caused by cigarettes.

Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397

In the study, the relative handful of smoking scenes in G - or PG - rated movies didn't appear to influence a child's likelihood of trying cigarettes.

Despite the PG rating, this film briefly (but heavily) implies teens are partaking of illegal drugs, and contains cigarettes (a brief shot shows a smoke smoldering in an ashtray) and alcohol use as well as brief drug references.

Jackman's Charlie Kenton used to box himself, but now occupies the used - cigarette end of the industry: controlling fourth - rate pugilists by remote control and watching them get methodically taken apart in the ring.

The issue has surfaced at a time of growing concern over the high rate of smoking - related deaths among Washington's black population, as well as anger nationally over cigarette manufacturers» efforts to entice young blacks and women to smoke.

It's always been a factor in the outsize teen road - fatality rate, but with the explosion in cell phones and iPods — talking, texting, tuning, and a plethora of distractions I could hardly imagine back when a friend gave me my first lesson in the subject by torching the rear seat of her Ford Maverick when the lit end of her cigarette blew off on the highway — things have gotten progressively worse.

There will be a $ 3 increase in the price of a carton of 200 cigarettes, effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and the tobacco tax will keep rising at the rate of inflation each year over the next five years.

And it was also true and known that the rate of lung cancer shot up with the introduction of cigarettes and that hot smoke from clay pipes increased the incidence of lip cancer.

While the US has reduced youth cigarette smoking rates to record lows, efforts to reduce overall youth tobacco use have been undermined by the popularity of e-cigarettes and cigars, which are marketed in a wide array of sweet flavors that attract kids.

We will use annual rates for a 30 - year - old male tobacco user (cigarette smoker) in good health with a 20 - year Term life insurance plan design and a $ 500,000 face amount with a rate class of «Standard Tobacco».

Then for each year you stay away from cigarettes, you climb the ladder of rates available to you, starting with Standard Plus after 2 years, then Preferred after 3, then Preferred Plus after 3 — 5 years with most carriers.

If you're looking to get better rates, quit smoking cigarettes or using chewing tobacco, it could save you thousands of dollars every year (not to mention what you save by not buying cigarettes).

Banner will consider you for Standard Plus or Standard Non Smoker rates if you are cigarette free for over 12 months and smoke a maximum of 1 cigar per month.

However, there are some life insurance companies that cater to specific sections of the population; some companies have found a niche in offering the lowest possible premium rates to cigarette smokers.

If you use cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco or snuff there has been a lot of changes in the industry to offer lower rates.

A limited number of insurers may qualify a cigar smoker or the occasional cigarette smoker (less than 12 per year) for the above listed top 4 ratings.

You are only eligible for non-smoker rates if you haven't touched a cigarette in the last 365 days — but you have to disclose your use of cigars or other forms up front.

Getting term life insurance coverage when you have a history of smoking cigarettes, using smoking cessation products or smoking marijuana, is possible but you'll need to understand what exactly life insurance carriers are looking at and how to leverage your application timing to secure the best available rates.

Many of the life insurance companies would place a cigarette, pipe and cigar smokers into the same tobacco user rate class.

If you use some other form of tobacco, such as chewing tobacco, pipes, or cigars, we have at least two companies (as of September 2011) that actually give NON tobacco rates to these non cigarette tobacco users.

This is just an example of three of the most popular companies used in the United States and how their rates would be impacted by smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products such as cigars, pipes and even chewing tobacco products as well.