Not hiring smokers may be defensible for an organization such as the American Cancer Society, but not for most small employers. A more acceptable position is to alert candidates at the time of the interview to
Maintained smoking cessation for 6 months equilibrates the percentage of sputum CD8+ lymphocyte cells with that of nonsmokers. Mediators Inflamm. 2009; 2009 812102.Bouloukaki I, Tsoumakidou M, Vardavas CI, Mitrouska I, Koutala E, Siafakas NM, et al. Maintained smoking cessation for 6 ...
All-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and non-cardiovascular mortality were also higher in the high NPAR group (P < 0.05). Fig. 1 Flow chart of the study population in this cohort. Abbreviations: MHD, maintenance hemodialysis; CVD, cardiovascular disease Full size image Table 1 ...
Smoking status was categorized as current smokers and non-smokers (nonsmokers or stop smoking for at least 6 months). People who exercised three or more times a week for >30 minutes were categorized as the regular exercise group, and those who exercised less than three times a week were ...