Vaping products and nicotine replacement therapies continue to attract adult smokers who are motivated partly by cost and partly by health considerations
"Largely because of menthol cigarettes, Black Americans have a harder time quitting smoking and die at higher rates from tobacco-related diseases like cancer, heart disease and stroke," Yolonda Richardson, the president and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement
In the literature, some prospective studies found a lower weight gain among participants who started smoking,25 others found a lower gain in black people but no differences for white people,26 while others found a higher gain in participants who started smoking.27 In our study, participants who smoked at baseline and were still smoking at follow-up had a greater weight gain than those who had never smoked
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