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Scientists have discovered that it is much more complicated task for people who smoke cigarettes with menthol to refuse smoking than for those ones who prefer cigarettes without menthol. And it is necessary to note that the cigarettes of both kinds are almost equally harmful for people’s health.

The doctor Mark J. Pletcher with his colleagues from the University of California in San – Francisco came to such a conclusion on the grounds of the research which had been taking place for 15 years with the participation of 1500 smokers.

The participants were examined for the purpose of determining the content of the calcium in their arteries and the state of lungs. They (participants) were also interviewed in detail. The result of the interviewing was: 63 % of the respondents preferred cigarettes with menthol and 36% preferred cigarettes without menthol.

It was also found out that the cigarettes with menthol were smoked on the whole by the young women, unemployed people, overweighted people. But the distinctive feature of this group of smokers was a less number of cigarettes smoked during the day in comparison with those people who smoked cigarettes without menthol.