smoking habit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsmokingandhabit
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smoking
noun[U]
uk/ˈsməʊ.kɪŋ/us/ˈsmoʊ.kɪŋ/
the action of smoking a cigarette, pipe, etc., or the activity of doing ...
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habit
noun
uk/ˈhæb.ɪt/us/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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(Definition ofsmokingandhabitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Smokinghabitwas analysed as a dichotomous variable (non-smoker and smoker).
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Few admitted to having a drinking problem but most admitted to a dailysmokinghabit.
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In this paper, we focus on host genetic factors and thesmokinghabitas probable influential factors.
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Common personality factors presumably influenced both the adoption of thesmokinghabitand the choice of contraceptive method.
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At this time, weight was recorded as well as information onsmokinghabitand tea, coffee and alcohol consumption.
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The impact on theirsmokinghabitis at most negligible.
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As soon as a few years after quitting thesmokinghabit, ex-smokers are at a substantially lower risk for myocardial infarction or stroke.
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The youngster who contracts thesmokinghabitis a customer for life.
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But it is not merely lung cancer to which thesmokinghabitcontributes.
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There are research links between advertising and both starting thesmokinghabitand reinforcing it.
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It kick-starts thesmokinghabitand can lead to a life of addiction and disease.
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Because of thesmokinghabit, some 50 million days are lost in productivity.
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Sadly, the emancipation of women has seen an increase in thesmokinghabitamong women.
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Suffered from lung cancer after a lifelongsmokinghabit.
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Our long-term campaign of health education is being pursued both centrally and locally to discourage thesmokinghabit.
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I come to the research conducted by the tobacco companies into the danger of thesmokinghabit.
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That underlines the problems that we face in trying to change society's attitude towards thesmokinghabit.
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More needs to be known about the complex of psychological and social pressures that encourage and reinforce thesmokinghabit.
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This is in addition to elements in the council's main programmes intended to discourage thesmokinghabit.
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We are concerned with how to create conditions whereby fewer young people in succeeding generations pick up thesmokinghabit.
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Besides being a flagrant disregard for the law, it undoubtedly helps to encourage youngsters to take up thesmokinghabit.
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The statistical significance of differences in social readership group andsmokinghabitwith bedtimes and time spent in bed was tested using the chi-squared test on original data (a = 005).
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This contributes to the cultural acceptability of thesmokinghabitand conflicts with the credibility of public education about its dangers.
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He would be supported by non-smokers and smokers—in fact, everybody except the tobacco trade—in this effort to stop young children acquiring thesmokinghabit.
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She also has a badsmokinghabit, but she is trying to quit.
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