Sentence examples for remote smokers from inspiring English sources
Five subjects were remote smokers (∼10 pack-years); the average time since smoking cessation was 14 years.
Smokers, for example, may be too broad a category but Aboriginal smokers in remote areas may be a more acceptable category even if still not precise.
67 Aboriginal smokers in remote areas have been described as more likely to be in the precontemplative or contemplative stages of change and require more assistance to ready to quit smoking.
The three population groups reveal similarly common anthropometric, metabolic and lifestyle factors such as young age, mean HbA1c8-8.78-8.7%ross the groups), duration of diabetes (median duration 6 to 9 years across groups) and high rates of cigarette smoking (particularly in both remote groups with 50% current smokers).
However, a previous study in 2008 has shown that 63% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0 14 years lived in a household with members who were daily smokers (72% in remote and 61% in non-remote areas) [ 33].
The proportion of self-reported non-smokers in the ABC remote group with cotinine levels above the 50 ng/ml cut-off was over three times that seen in the ABC non-remote group.> -wrap-foot> Percentages do not add up to 100 in all cases due to rounding.
The widespread desire to quit among smokers documented in our recent surveys in remote communities suggests a high need to successfully implement sound programs in these localities arising from the new tobacco policies.
26 In addition, non-smokers may serve as 'weak ties' spanning clusters of smokers, analogous to a disease carrier who transports the disease between remote villages.
(Male, smoker, 19 years) While numbers in our sample living in a remote community at the time of the study were small, data from this group and from boarding students suggest that in the remote setting, smoking within families is normative and exposure frequent.
Individuals in remote villages had increased mean SBP, higher fasting blood sugar and increased probability of being a current smoker.
