Genetics: People of African ancestry have a genotype that may cause them to metabolize cotinine more slowly than people of other ancestries
Smoking in pregnancy also have implications for the long term physical growth and intellectual development of the child, such as reduced height, lower attainments in reading and mathematics
In short, Big Tobacco had to catch the eyes of women
EGFR was the most common mutation found in Black patients, although less prevalent than rates observed in White, Hispanic, and Asian patients
Briefly, the studies that were extracted represented several types of study design (for example, cohort and casecontrol studies), measured exposure in several different ways and varied in their choice of reference categories (where some compared current smokers with never smokers, whereas others compared current smokers with nonsmokers or former smokers)