(1) The prevalence was also higher in medium and heavy smokers.
(2) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(3) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(5) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
(6) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
(7) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(8) Twelve young male smokers each participated in four conditions on 4 separate days: stress + nicotine, stress + placebo (stress alone), rest + nicotine (nicotine alone), and rest + placebo.
(9) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
(10) Smokers who have had changes of above said subsets of lymphocytes in the lungs may develop lung cancer.
(11) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
(12) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
(13) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(15) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(16) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
(17) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
(18) While millions have stopped smoking in the past two decades, about 55 million people continue to smoke in the U.S. Of these smokers 85% would like to quit, and a majority have tried to do so at least once.
(19) We investigated the effect of vitamin E (dl-alpha-tocopherol) on lipid peroxidation in 13 healthy smokers.
(20) These reversible changes in adrenergic regulation after smoking cessation may be associated with the relatively rapid reduction in cardiovascular disease risk among ex-smokers.
Stoker
Definition:
(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
(v. t.) A fire poker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irving decided they should all take a month’s holiday and then regroup; he suggested Stoker try Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast, where Irving had once run a circus.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) At weekends throughout the school holidays the site will be bringing Bram Stoker's tale to life with a cast of actors and time-travel-themed events.
(4) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(5) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(6) Bram Stoker's masterpiece has become a mirror in which later generations of readers can explore any number of secret fantasies.
(7) Stoker would go to the reading room of the Royal Hotel and look out at the scene you can see now.
(8) Miller, who played incarcerated structural engineer Michael Scofield in Prison Break from 2005 to 2009, wrote the script for the film Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook.
(9) Other films expected to premiere are Park Chan-wook's thriller Stoker; Lovelace – an account of the life of porn star Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace ; and Breathe in, a new drama from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus.
(10) But the mark Stoker left on the town is as indelible as a pair of pinprick bites on a snow-white neck.
(11) ... 1892!” He goes on: “Whitby was undoubtedly instrumental to Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
(12) In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Count Dracula lives in a crumbling Transylvanian castle.
(13) Among the contemporary anxieties reflected in Stoker's tale was a fear about the future.
(14) Samples of coal ash from a stoker-fired furnace were mechanically sized into four categories.
(15) Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , James Hogg 's Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Robert Louis Stevenson 's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James and MR James .
(16) In fact, here’s one now ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whitby as Stoker saw it … the town pictured between 1890 and 1900.
(17) Kidman, responding at a special screening of her new film Stoker in London last week, said she was determined to present a carefully crafted take on Alfred Hitchcock 's best known muse.
(18) One of Stoker's many influences in setting the novel in Transylvania was local mass murderer Vlad III "the Impaler", the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula.
(19) Elsewhere, in the Daily Mail , Bram Stoker was rated above both Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ( No 10 in this series ).
(20) This study was set up to investigate whether work as a stoker is associated with an increased risk of specific malignant neoplasms.