To determine doseresponse relationships, the association between smoking pack-years and cortical thickness was tested and then repeated, while controlling for a comprehensive list of covariates including, among others, cognitive ability before starting smoking
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Then there were those items that came to be associated with a particular way of life that was far from the original reason they existed