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Over the past 50-plus years, tobacco companies have leveraged modern science to manipulate their products to make them even more addictive.The evidence is sufficient to conclude that the increased risk of death and disease specifically lung cancer results from changes in the design and composition of cigarettes since the 1950s, states the surgeon generals The Health Consequences of Smoking 50 Years of Progress report

in contrast, a study by Mouhamed et al

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While our findings revealed a high burden of current cigarette smoking among male adolescents relative to their female counterparts in most of the countries studied, we observed a higher burden of male adolescent smoking in predominantly low-income countries including Mali, Madagascar, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia