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August 2009, Vol 99, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1350
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.163485

LETTERS

SMOKING AFFECTS WOMENS' SEX HORMONE–REGULATED BODY FORM

Mari Pölkki, MSc and Markus J. Rantala, PhD

Both authors are with the University of Turku, Turku Finland.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Mari Pölkki, Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland (e-mail: mapolk@utu.fi). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Saarni et al.1 recently published an interesting study using Finnish twins to examine the association between adolescent smoking and adult abdominal obesity and overweight. They found that smoking was a risk for abdominal obesity in females.1 Unfortunately, they were unable to provide any explanation for the phenomenon, and did not realize that this probably affects the attractiveness of the female body.2 Here we propose why smoking may increase abdominal obesity in women and reduce attractiveness.

The study by Saarni et al.1 is consistent with previous studies that have found that smoking females have a significantly higher waist-to-hip ratio.3 It is . . . [Full Text]






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