Example sentences of "cigarettes a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , Wales has the highest proportion of heavy smokers among men with nearly one in five having 20 or more cigarettes a day . |
| 2 | Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal . |
| 3 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 4 | He once recommended two or three cigarettes a day as an aid to clarity of thought and memory . |
| 5 | To put the level of risk in perspective , one study concluded that anyone standing all day at a busy roadside with traffic containing 20 per cent diesel would be exposed to 1,000 times less benzo(a)pyrene than somebody smoking 10 to 15 cigarettes a day . |
| 6 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 7 | So , for example , a man with a diastolic blood pressure ( the pressure when the heart is filling ) of 90 mm of mercury ( 90 mm Hg ) and who smoked 30 cigarettes a day , would be entered if his serum cholesterol was 295 mg/ 100 ml ( 7–63 mmol/l ) or more . |
| 8 | For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age . |
| 9 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 10 | One distressing sequence we filmed in the laboratories portrayed mice with their little noses pushed into holes in a plastic tube along which was passed tobacco smoke equivalent to that inhaled by a human on twenty cigarettes a day . |
| 11 | Someone once told me that even breathing the air was the equivalent of smoking twenty cigarettes a day . |
| 12 | IT 'S disgraceful that a woman turned her baby daughter into a nicotine addict by smoking 50 cigarettes a day while she was pregnant . |
| 13 | BOB MOULD smokes 500 cigarettes a day . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that out of 1,000 young UK smokers of 20 or more cigarettes a day , one will be murdered , 6 will die in road accidents and 250 will die prematurely as a result of their smoking [ 8 ] . |
| 15 | Surveys have shown that smokers of more than 20 cigarettes a day have twice as much time off work due to illness as do non-smokers [ 2 ] . |
| 16 | Of course , smokers also pay with their health : the proportion of men aged 35 who will die before reaching retiring age is 40% for heavy smokers ( 25 or more cigarettes a day ) compared with 15% for non-smokers [ 4 ] . |
| 17 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer and more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 18 | Children whose mothers smoke ten or more cigarettes a day after the fourth month of pregnancy tend to show poorer progress at school , at least up to the age of 16 [ 14 ] . |
| 19 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer , more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 20 | Among consumers of both products the risk of these cancers was increased more than 35-fold among those who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day and took more than four alcoholic drinks a day . |
| 21 | The relative risk for male smokers of more than 20 cigarettes a day is over 5 times that of nonsmokers and for women 6 times that of nonsmokers [ 7 ] . |
| 22 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 23 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 24 | At the time of my infarct I was three stone overweight , smoked 60 cigarettes a day , hated health food ; my idea of a perfect dinner was a plateful of greasy cholesterol . |
| 25 | In the UK , on average , men smoke seven cigarettes a day and women five cigarettes a day . |
| 26 | In the UK , on average , men smoke seven cigarettes a day and women five cigarettes a day . |
| 27 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |
| 28 | You was n't allowed to smoke — that was one privilege they did normally let you have : if you were over fourteen you were allowed up to four cigarettes a day . |
| 29 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 30 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |