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- <text id=92TT2145>
- <title>
- Sep. 28, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 28, 1992 The Economy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 33
- SOCIETY
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p>BORN TO SMOKE
- </p>
- <p> Why are some people easily hooked on cigarettes while others
- drop the habit after a few puffs? The answer, according to a
- study of 4,775 sets of twins, which was reported in the New
- England Journal of Medicine, may lie in our chromosomes.
- Identical twins (who share the same genes) were somewhat more
- likely than fraternal twins (who don't) to exhibit the same
- behavior--whether it is chain smoking, rarely smoking or
- quitting altogether. The study's results bolster the idea that
- heredity plays a role in why people start, stop or continue
- smoking.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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