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The National Institutes of Health estimates that as many as 90 percent of alcoholics also smoke cigarettes, and even those without an alcohol dependency are known to light up only when they drink. Although this link between drinking and smoking has been widely acknowledged, scientists are not completely sure of what entices drinkers to light up in the first place

But a fundamental flaw in the study was that most of the papers reviewed used cross-sectional data, not longitudinal data on the same subjects over time

The experiments conducted for this study consisted of 70 distinct tests involving a total of 723 cigarettes and over 4,500 instances of exposure of a lit cigarette to ignitable concentrations of gasoline vapor in air

There is evidence to suggest that treatments can reduce developmental exposure to secondhand smoking [128]

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