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Jump to full article: American Journal of Public Health, 2009-08-04
Author: Mari Pölkki, MSc and Markus J. Rantala, PhD
Intro: Saarni et al.1 recently published an interesting study using Finnish twins to examine the association between adolescent smoking and adult abdominal obesity and overweight. They found that smoking was a risk for abdominal obesity in females.1 Unfortunately, they were unable to provide any explanation for the phenomenon, and did not realize that this probably affects the attractiveness of the female body.2 Here we propose why smoking may increase abdominal obesity in women and reduce attractiveness.
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