While this number is in itself staggering, African American smokers are more than 10 times as likely to smoke menthol cigarettes than their white counterparts
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Broken Promises to Our Children: a State-by-State Look at the 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 22 Years Later FY2023, 2023
In fact, one full-size cigar may have the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes
Smoking is associated with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, increased blood catecholamine levels, increased fibrinogen levels, and impaired vascular endothelial function [36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48]
Although both groups were of equal age, users of electronic cigarettes had a 44% higher lifetime tobacco smoking exposure compared to current smokers