Quitting cigarettes and getting fat: contagious?
by friver ~ May 31st, 2008. Filed under: Strange Research.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study suggesting that people who quit smoking tend to influence their friends and relatives into quitting as well. They studied over 12,000 participants over 32 years.
The same group of scientists also did another study that found similar social links to obesity.
You can read more about it by clicking on this link.
August 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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