The result can be lower back pain and sometimes osteoporosis
While this may seem like the more transparent way to sell packs of cigarettes, it led to brands competing with each other to showcase how their cigarettes had less tar, for example, and created a perception in peoples minds that some brands of cigarettes were safer than others
Methods Study overview Fifty-nine otherwise healthy adults, who were in one of four categories, completed the study and had usable data: HIV-/Smok- ( n = 16), HIV-/Smok+ ( n = 14), HIV+/Smok- ( n = 18), and HIV+/Smok+ ( n = 11)
Finally, convergent validity was shown through the relationships with both a global scale of tobacco dependence and the items measuring addiction-related symptoms (eg, smoking in affective contexts, loss of control, intrusive thoughts, and adverse consequences in daily life)
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It was published in the journal Toxicology (abstract here)