This is a post-print (post-refereed, final accepted) version of the manuscript that has been published in Addiction. The citation details and the link to the final publisher version are below. Docherty, G., McNeill, A., Gartner, C. E. and Szatkowski, L. (2014), Response to Winter: ‘Hardcore smoking does not necessarily indicate hardening’. Addiction, 109: 682. doi: 10.1111/add.12462 Published o...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate changes in the relative proportion of hardcore smokers (HCS) in Norway for the years 1996-2009. METHODS Data were derived from Statistics Norway's annually cross-sectional representative samples of the adult population. The total sample size of smokers each year was between 250 and 500. The outcome measure was HCS, defined by their intenti...

The straight razor is hardcore. It is cut-throat sharp, dangerous, and yet has always maintained its notoriety of providing the benchmark kind of shave to which every other razor is compared. Some joke that straight razor shaving is an esoteric art practiced only by mentally unstable people with a death wish, and a new brand on the market expands on this idea. This article takes a look at an in...

The genealogy stretching from Romanticism to the tortured poets of emotional hardcore music scene is by now well established. Emotional hardcore, or emo, invested in construction usually White male artist, a sensitive and creative being subject great deal suffering – as result both his artistic nature external forces aligned against him. European Romantics invented concept artist cultural icon ...

Hardcore poverty is a problem that still plagues the community in this country. Although various efforts have been implemented by Malaysian Government to overcome it, but until now these havent succeeded achieving goals set before. Zakat social and economic system its implementation controlled government. Through zakat provision, Islam has ahead of times defending plight poor needy asnafs. In 2...

In this paper we consider the reconstruction problem on the tree for the hardcore model. We determine new bounds for the non-reconstruction regime on the k-regular tree showing non-reconstruction when λ < (ln 2 − o(1)) ln k 2 ln ln k improving the previous best bound of λ < e − 1. This is almost tight as reconstruction is known to hold when λ > (e+ o(1)) ln k. We discuss the relationship for fi...