Findings from the present study, along with the published findings [ 5, 6, 10, 15], indicate that a partial smoke-free legislation has had a weak impact on smoking cessation, but a comprehensive smoke-free legislation can substantially attenuate smoking prevalence without having negative economic impacts on the local businesses.
Univariate analysis showed that the number of sex partners (strong), early age at first intercourse (strong), and smoking (weak) were significant risk factors for HR-HPV infection in the 1983/84 cohort, whereas there were weaker associations in the 1988/89 cohort [ 18].
They can earn more money farming strawberries, he said, noting that despite the Japanese government's comparatively weak stance against smoking, tobacco consumption is falling.
Results: Illness perceptions appeared to be only weak predictors of smoking, exercise, diet, alcohol consumption and medication adherence, accounting for about 2% of the variance in these behaviours.
For prostate cancer this study showed weak association with smoking.
Other authors [ 25] have identified a weak association between smoking and the components of psychosocial job strain.
The weak correlation between smoking and depression among our patients hints at the unhealthy lifestyle among depressed patients.
Another possible hypothesis for the weak effect of smoking before stove improvement may be related to activity of enzymes which activate tobacco-specific carcinogens.
In contrast, we found only weak associations between smoking and risk of conventional adenomas (tubular or advanced), and no substantive differences by sex.
In our data, colorectal shows some relatively weak relationship with smoking with an implausibly strong relationship for rectal cancer and no evident relationship for colon cancer.
