We termed this region Tobacco Nation. When we originally examined states with the highest adult smoking prevalence in 2017, using the most recent data available, we singled out 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia
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They were asked to either continue smoking their regular brand of cigarette or to smoke one of six types of investigational cigarettes that had varying amounts of nicotine, ranging from 15.8 milligrams (mg) of nicotine per gram of tobacco (the amount found in most commercial brands) all the way down to 0.4 mg per gram
The agency cannot, however, ban the product
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These carcinogens undergo metabolic detoxification catalyzed by a variety of enzymes such as glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), uridine-5-disphosphate-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs), epoxide hydrolases, and sulfatases