female golfer cigarette Charley Hull smoked her way through the US Open this weekend, and she did so while looking unbelievably cool. While the negative health effects of cigarettes are well-documented, so is the fact female golfer that smokes cigarettes

At tobacco firm JTI, head of trade communications Jeremy Blackburn explained some of the numbers

The growing expense of cigarettes, more smoking prohibitions, and declining discretionary money appear to be discouraging many smokers from smoking as much

Additional examples include hypermethylation of cg00387170 in FOXP4 (involved in lung development), cg04402350 in ZNF827 (a zinc finger transcription factor), and cg12331332 in CASP7 (a gene related to apoptosis)

Heavy smoke or high occupancy add more capacity

While smoking cigarettes has declined in the youth population the overwhelming acceptance and trend to vape and use e-cigarettes with flavors has become an epidemic