Smokers At Risk For Cancer--And They're Fat, Too

Health Mullahs everywhere have a brand new set of statistics to push when they lobby the government for more tobacco regulations. A new study in Revista Española de Cardiología suggests that active and former smokers are likely fatter than non-smokers. The authors of the study say their results confirm that nicotine addiction is not an effective way of to prevent obesity. Researchers followed 7565 college students over a four-year period. After adjusting for age, sex, initial BMI and lifestyle, weight gain in people who stopped smoking during the study was higher the more cigarettes they smoked a day when the investigation began. Those who continued smoking also gained more weight during this period than the non-smokers. read more

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