cigarette smoking demographics Current Among Adults — United States, 2016 Estimates of current cigarette smoking

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Moreover, we hypothesize that the temporal variability in sensitivity might be more pronounced for species with shorter lifespans because such species tend to have shorter generations, which can lead to more rapid ecological responses and thus be highly susceptible to environmental change 13,54,55

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Our observation that the male smoker/non-smoker gap widens with age is consistent with a Japanese study of smokers who began by age 20, which also showed increasing disparity at older ages [23]