One of the reasons hypothesized for why menthol is so appealing to young people is that its been proposed to, quote-unquote, help the medicine go down. The minty cooling sensation is supposed to mask the harshness of inhaled cigarette smoke. Additionally, kids who reported smoking menthols in the past month were more likely to have smoked six to ten cigarettes per day and less likely to have smoked between one and five cigarettes per day than kids who reported smoking non-menthol cigarettes in the past month
Cigarettes became an indispensable soldiers companion during World War I, and by about the 1930s cigarettes (flue-cured or not) were the tobacco product of choice in many countries
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Commenting on the study, she said: The study results offer an interesting insight into the overall lifetime risk of cancer related to alcohol and smoking
Daily Chronicle & Sentinel [Augusta, GA], 27 November 1860, p