Cigarette Smoking and Food Consumption in the United States1
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 14 (3), 310-317
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1984.tb02239.x
Abstract
Correlations were computed between United States per capita consumption of cigarettes and 41 different foods for the years 1964–1977 and 1968–1973. There were significant negative correlations between consumption of cigarettes and sugar. Few other foods showed any relationship to cigarette consumption. These findings corroborate the results of a recent human laboratory study of cigarette smoking and food consumption and a recent animal study of the effects of nicotine on food consumption, taste preferences, and body weight. Taken together, these studies suggest that the inverse relationship between cigarette smoking and body weight may be partially explained by changes in consumption of sweet-tasting high caloric foods.Keywords
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