Sentences with phrase «use of tobacco by»

Not exact matches

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

In my formative years, I saw excessive use of alcohol and tobacco by adults who were self - absorbed, bored with life, and, in fact, not very interested in their children.

The deceptive and abusive litigation tactics used by the tobacco companies failed in the third wave of tobacco litigation.

The attorneys prosecuting the cases of the third wave of tobacco litigation also used a number of innovative legal devices, strategies or tactics designed to circumvent the tobacco industry's abusive discovery practices and to overcome the tremendous resource advantages enjoyed by the industry in previous litigation.

The recipe was contributed to The Kinfolk Table by restauranteur Sam Wylde who uses 2 teaspoons of Urfa chile flakes for their smoky, tobacco notes.

First of all, Illinois got blown out by a bad Wisconsin team, and then he was caught using chewing tobacco on the sidelines during a game, which is an NCAA violation.

A major concern is enforcement of the state law prohibiting tobacco and alcohol use on school property, according to school board member Nancy Binion, who said parents attending events sponsored by youth athletic associations often violate that prohibition.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

However the marketing tactics used by the baby food companies mirror those of the tobacco industry.

«Smoking» in public health debates is usually used as a by - word for tobacco consumption, with cannabis treated separately as part of the drugs debate.

On 29 August 2009, the convention was ratified by the standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, China's top legislative body, which indicates that China is under legal obligation to internalize the norms stipulated in the FCTC so as to effectively control tobacco use.

Using 50 % VAT on luxury yachts to reduce the taxes paid by the manufacturer of luxury yachts and their employer would be no bad thing; redistribution isn't the only goal of the tax system, if it were we'd have no tax on tobacco.

As of Jan. 1, local law prohibits the use of tobacco products and e-devices on property owned or leased by Oneida County and is punishable by up to a $ 1,000 fine.

New York State Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard Zucker said that «although e-cigarette use is promoted as a healthier alternative to tobacco use by the vaping industry, research has shown that they may carry long - term health risks for users and those exposed to secondhand emissions.»

Riccardo Polosa, professor of Medicine at Catania University, did a study for the Italian Non-Smoking Association which found that 55 % of the 40 committed smokers in his experiment had significantly reduced or eliminated their use of tobacco cigarettes by the electronic alternative.

CVS has recognized the need for pharmacies to focus on supporting health and wellness instead of contributing to disease and death caused by tobacco use.»

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

Legislator Brian May (R - Baldwinsville) said the good news is 80 percent of the money being spent would be reimbursed by the federal government, and the remaining balance, or local match, would be covered by tobacco asset money used for infrastructure projects.

«These results indicate that while taking into account vaporiser use does indeed increase tobacco / nicotine prevalence, the impact of vaporisers is likely not as large as might appear by their recent, dramatic increase in use among adolescents,» write the researchers.

In the face of such broad agreement, the leaked strategy smacks of tactics used by tobacco companies as the evidence linking smoking to fatal diseases continued to grow.

Among American high schoolers, vaping reportedly increased by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, and Murthy says this sharp uptick in e-cigarette use places a new generation at risk of addiction to nicotine, and tobacco - related disease.

Now, a team led by microbiologist Tim Kunkel of The Rockefeller University in New York City has shown that at least two crops — lettuce and tobacco — can be engineered without using antibiotic resistance genes.

This is a summary of the method used by researchers to transfer the metabolic pathway for artemisinic acid from Artemisia annua to the high - biomass crop, tobacco, thereby increasing production of the acid.

The data used for the studies was collected by the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science on Youth and Young Adults (Texas TCORS), a center created by several of The University of Texas System institutions to develop research that can guide future decisions on tobacco regulations at the national level.

«As the two scientists directly charged by you with overseeing the country's health research enterprise,» the letter ran, «we are writing to you today about the devastating effects of tobacco use on the health of our nation.»

The frontline prescription drugs currently used to treat tobacco dependence — which include bupropion and varenicline — primarily target the brain's «reward» pathways by interfering with the release and binding of dopamine in the brain in response to nicotine.

According to the National Cancer Institute, at least 3 in 4 head and neck cancers are caused by the use of tobacco and alcohol.

The proportional risk reduction did not vary substantially by women's reproductive history, adiposity (amount of body fat), alcohol use, tobacco use, or ethnicity.

Based on these data, it is unlikely that the high prevalence of adolescent dual users of e-cigarettes and combustible tobacco reported in recent national cross-sectional surveys2, 3 is entirely accounted for by adolescent smokers who later initiate e-cigarette use.

«FDA / NIH partnerships like the Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science keep us focused on reducing the burden and devastation of preventable disease caused by tobacco use.»

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Researchers found that psychosocial factors such as the use of e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes by family and friends had an impact on the participants» use.

A large proportion of diabetes and its complications can be prevented by a healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use.

A 2016 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that while the number of teenage tobacco users has declined, the number of teenagers who use electronic cigarettes is greater than those who use conventional cigarettes.

A recent study by a research team from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reveals that the TV Parental Guidelines rating system developed by the entertainment industry more than 20 years ago has been ineffective in helping parents identify shows that contain content that might not be appropriate for children, including tobacco and alcohol use — behaviors strongly associated with increased cancer risk.

Once caused primarily by heavy tobacco or alcohol use, the majority of new head and neck cancers in the United Stated result from infection with HPV, a common sexually transmitted disease known for causing cervical cancer in women.

The report, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said was reviewed by more than 150 experts, said e-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco products among young people.

«These results indicate that while taking into account [e-cigarette] use does indeed increase tobacco / nicotine prevalence, the impact of [e-cigarettes] is likely not as large as might appear by their recent, dramatic increase in use among adolescents,» Miech and colleagues wrote.

Also, most studies have shown that the chance of getting prostate cancer is not increased by tobacco or alcohol use, BPH, a sexually transmitted disease, obesity, a lack of exercise, or a diet high in animal fat or meat.

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.

In the United States, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 provides this description: «The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) defines the term «dietary supplement» to mean a product (other than tobacco) intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: a vitamin, a mineral, an herb or other botanical, an amino acid, a dietary substance for use by man to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combination of any of the aforementioned ingredients.

A moment of sexual innuendo on the playground and frequent drinking and tobacco use by adults are also included.

The study, which tracks the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, reported that 48.4 percent of high school seniors surveyed had used an illicit drug at least once, up from 45.6 percent in 1994.

Schools should prohibit use of tobacco on school premises by students, staff members, and the general public.

Lions Quest helps provide protective factors by creating a strong connection to school, involving parents in the lives of their children, and helping students gain the knowledge, skill, and commitment to make healthy choices when they face pressure to use alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.

Funding to support health education efforts aimed at the prevention and reduction of tobacco use by youth

If the Insured Person told us that he / she was a smoker and it has been 12 months or more since he / she last smoked or used any substance or product containing tobacco, nicotine or marijuana, he / she can apply for non-smoker rates by completing a Business Credit Life Insurance Notification of Change Form.

You are only entitled to non-smoker rates if, on the date your application is received by Manulife, you have not used any form of tobacco, tobacco cessation products or marijuana in the past 12 months and you meet our health standards.

These high yield, long duration bonds are impacted by both credit risk driven by declining tobacco use and the possibility of rising rates.