For males who consume fewer than 5 drinks per day, drinking a standard drink also did not result in as much of a negative impact on health as smoking a cigarette
External factors, including the social-environmental and the cultural, are covered in Chapter 4, Social, Environmental, Cognitive, and Genetic Influences on the Use of Tobacco Among Youth. Longitudinal Patterns of Tobacco Use in Adolescents Mayhew and colleagues (2000) identified several stages of adolescent smoking, from not smoking at all to established smoking, as well as common and distinct predictors of the various stages
While it is common knowledge that smoking causes lung cancer which is more common in women under 55 than men, it also makes women prone to cancers of the kidney, blood, cervix, and skin amongst others
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