Sentence examples for smoking trends from inspiring English sources

As they had for much of the previous decade, tobacco manufacturers spent 2008 contending with declining American smoking trends and looking to expand into emerging markets and diversifying their product lines.

Tobacco companies including Philip Morris lobbied vigorously behind the scenes in recent decades against measures to tighten laws against smoking in Switzerland, a country they considered an important bellwether of smoking trends in Europe, a new United Nations study has found.

(Reuters) SCIENCE/HEALTH Swiss Tobacco Battle Philip Morris and other tobacco companies lobbied vigorously behind the scenes in recent decades against measures to tighten laws on smoking in Switzerland, a country they considered an important bellwether of smoking trends in Europe, a new United Nations study found.

The charity said the figures reflected smoking trends in the UK, with the number of male smokers falling from the 1950s.

If current smoking trends persist, the researchers predict this rate will rise to 10 million deaths per year in 2030, with 70% in poor countries.

Europeans DNA at AHRR locus are hypomethylated and South Asians have heavily methylated locus essentially due to differences in smoking trends (Europeans are heavy smokers) (Elliott et al., 2014).

To summarize the above interactions in a more palatable way, we fitted smoking trend models allowing an interaction of smoking intensity with alcohol drinking groups or BMI.

No dose-response relationship was found for total pack-years of smoking (trend test: P = 0.19).

Because an increasing smoking trend is found in women in Asia, public health measures to prevent smoking are of importance.

Current non-drinkers were excluded from the alcohol trend model, and ex-smokers from the smoking trend model, because reasons for abstention might include ill-health.

However, when p53-negative cases were compared with controls, an elevated risk was found for ex-smokers (OR = 1.84, 95% CI 1.00-3.37) and current years of smoking (trend test: P = 0.03).