Sentence examples for smoking against from inspiring English sources

"We need to weigh up the benefits of fewer people smoking against the risk of electronic cigarettes leading to more people starting to smoke, particularly children," he said.

His administration has been marked by one crusade after another: against smoking, against salt, against trans fats, against soda.

Pitting smoking against obesity is tricky because it can mean comparing apples and bonbons, but there is some suggestion that a kind of weird zero-sum game is actually going on.

McQueen, a Turner Prize-winning British visual artist, has a knack with visuals, and there are loads of horrifying, stunning scenes in this film: a prison guard smoking against a wall, snow falling on the ground, a man smearing his shit on the walls, the visual rot of Sands' body as he achieves some sort of peace in death.

We noticed, for example, that some of them were balancing the health risks of smoking against the health risks of other addictive behaviours, such as eating too much.

The association between the smoking habit and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases has been acknowledged, and therefore the protective effect of smoking against putting on weight in no way indicates protection against the risk of cardiovascular diseases [ 2, 4, 6].

"What is our smoking gun against Saddam?" "Reply hazy.

Tiny Uruguay may not seem a likely front line in the war of the quit smoking brigade against Big Tobacco.

For the smoker, one barrier might be the salient, short-term pleasure of smoking weighed against the less determinate future of disease.

(How is this relevant for a missed turn signal?) He orders her to stop smoking (not against the law).

We did not have data to analyse these aspects, but the very different influences from maternal and paternal smoking weigh against purely social mechanisms.