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The concordance rates for smokers were consistently higher in monozygotic

(identical) then in dizygotic twins, even when the twins were brought up separately,

supporting the idea of genetic component for the smoking habit.

The Tobacco Epidemic, p. 126

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Adolescents with attention deficit disorder (formerly called hyperreactivity) have very

high smoking rates, and adults with ADD have smoking rates of more than 40%.

Paul Newhouse, M.D., Tenth National Conference on Nicotine Dependence,

Minneapolis, October 17, 1997

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In the United Kingdom, 40% of 16 year olds are smokers. In France, 58% of 18

year-olds are smokers.

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 43:72, 1988 and Los Angeles

Times, January 26, 1997, p. A8

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In Japan, cigarette consumption among minors increased 16% after foreign

transnational tobacco companies entered the market for the first time and began a

massive advertising and promotional campaign. In Taiwan after the country opened to

western brands, within two years the smoking rate among high school students had

risen from 19.5% to 32%, and cigarette consumption among women, almost

nonexistent before, had skyrocketed. In South Korea, smoking rates among teenage

boys rose from 18% to 30% in one year after import restrictions were removed, and

among girls, smoking rates quadrupled. And in Thailand, the number of smokers aged

15 to 19 increased by 24% in the first three years after American brands first were

sold.

INFACT Update, Summer 1994

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