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  • noun Plural form of ever-smoker.

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Examples

  • "Because the risk was calculated among ever-smokers, the odds ratios were substantially lower than what is typically observed in studies that include never-smokers," the researchers noted.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • When the researchers looked at RF-positive RA, they found male smokers were at nearly four-fold risk of the disease, while risk was tripled in ever-smokers and about 2.5 times greater for past smokers.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Genotyping for TaqIA polymorphism of DRD2 and SLC6A3 VNTR polymorphism was performed in 150 ever-smokers and 158 never-smokers.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Alicja Sieminska 2009

  • People who had ever smoked and who drank at least a glass of red wine daily were 60 percent less like to develop lung cancer than ever-smokers who didn't drink alcohol, Dr. Chun Chao of Kaiser Permanente Southern California in Pasadena and colleagues found.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • However, using dead controls the protection of occasional and moderate alcohol use appeared to be limited to ever-smokers for IHD (odds ratio (OR) 0.58, 95\% confidence interval (CI) 0.46 to

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

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