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Nicotine reduces body weight by raising the resting metabolic rate while blunting the expected increase in food intake in response to the increase in metabolic rate

If a small quantity of a relatively benign substance added to a tobacco product can make the product more addictive, make it easier to start smoking or facilitate continued smoking then it may be causing great harm by leveraging additional smoking

Another option to alleviate the issue is to use air purifiers with HEPA filters

Smoking is detrimental to everyones health

According to the American Cancer Society, pipe smoking is associated with a striking increase in laryngeal cancer mortality, with a relative risk (RR) of approximately 13.1

In a previous study, researchers showed that consumers of alcohol would decrease their drinking if they were informed about alcohol-attributable risks or harms e.g., the link between excessive drinking and cancer (5)