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chain smoker

A person who smokes cigarettes continuously, such that they begin a new cigarette as (or almost as) soon as the last one is extinguished. My grandmother died of emphysema after being a chain smoker for most of her adult life.

chain smoker

One who smokes continually by lighting a new cigarette from the one being finished, as in Before they forbade smoking, bridge tournaments often attracted players who are chain smokers . [c. 1930]

chain-smoker

n. someone who smokes cigarette after cigarette. She was a chain-smoker for thirty years, and then suddenly, boom. She’s gone.

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Myeloperoxidase level between Mauritian African and Asian smokers and Non smokers population: Myeloperoxidase is an enzyme which is actively secreted by the phagocytes and which oxidizes the protein lipid and also the antioxidant component of LDL, which can initiate the atherosclerotic cascade.

Effects of smoking on the lipoprotein levels among Mauritian of different ethnic groups and their preponderance to cardiovascular threats

Cigarette smoke contains thousands of dangerous chemicals that are unhealthy for both smokers and nonsmokers.

The deadly effects of tobacco addiction

5, we decrease the test's sensitivity, thereby missing many diehard smokers who inadvertently (or otherwise) get tested at a time when their cotinine levels are transiently below this threshold.

Rethinking our tobacco follies: life and health insurers need to take another look at tobacco-use underwriting issues

It's a giant step backward when government tries to restrict our freedom in order to increase the happiness of a subset of the population--in this case, smokers who want to quit sometime and need the financial push.

Taxed happy: two economists provide legislators with another reason to boost taxes. (Columns)

It was found that teen Marlboro and Camel smokers perceived themselves as having more stress in their lives as compared with teen Newport smokers.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEENAGERS WHO SMOKE DIFFERENT CIGARETTE BRANDS

5 percent of the cigar smokers were in some stage of emphysema.

Blowing smoke: the unhealthy cigar's glamourous image is a lot of hot air

The comparison of parameters of BP, HR, and plasma MDA levels in the control smokers and non-smokers is given in Table 2.

Impact of chronic smoking on lipid peroxidation and electrocardiogram in ischemic heart disease patients

This suggests that apart from having a hard time finding a job, smokers also are paid relatively less than their non-smoking peers.

Smokers more likely to be jobless than non-smokers: Study

SBP of both light and heavy smokers were significantly less than control group.

Effect of smoking on selected blood parameters

uA Columbus Life: Applicants over 25 years old who smoke pot experimentally to intermittently might get standard smoker rates.

The effects of marijuana use on life insurance rates

Of the 864 respondents, 655 did not smoke and 161 were daily smokers (45 occasional smokers and 3 respondents with missing values on this question were excluded from these analyses).

Smokers and non-smokers differ in their beliefs about their addiction: public health implications

Smokers are social lepers and have to smoke outside whatever the weather, which is very unfair.

Smokers seen as lepers; Supported by YourSay

The quitters for more than 3 years and current non-smokers showed larger increases in BP than the current smoker.

Thyroid and its Regulatory Hormonal Homeostasis in Current and the Former Smokers

An example is the Cipollone case in New Jersey, on which the tobacco industry spent more than $50 million, dragging the case out over a ten year period, to deny damages to the family of a heavy smoker who died of lung cancer.

How to kick a national habit

The team of skin specialists in Rome say they found 42 per cent of smokers had acne compared with only one in 10 non-smokers.