Suppose a person who stopped smoking has close relationships with active smokers
The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, used a new way of analyzing PET (positron emission tomography) scans to create movies of the dopamine response during smoking to demonstrate for the first time that smoking-induced dopamine activation occurs in a different brain region and much faster in nicotine-dependent men than women
Using data from the Current Population Survey, they examined whether states that passed large tax increases observed smoking reductions greater than those that did not
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Combine that with the fact that nicotine no longer acts as a mild stimulant for your metabolism, and you can see why the scale might start creeping up
In effect, assuming North Carolina to be the primary source is a simplifying assumption but as we have argued above, it is a reasonable assumption that should not be far from the truth
