The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Coincidentally, we've recently published another study focusing on a peculiar type of obesity that develops after cessation of cigarette smoking, and to make a long story short, we found a similar cooperation between the microbiome and the host in generating compounds that could drive this obesity phenomenon after smoking cessation.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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many cigarette-related chemicals not only reach the systemic circulation, but they actually penetrate the gut, and they impact the microbiome towards a disturbed composition and function. And this has its own independent effects on, for example, the risk of developing obesity after you start...you attempt to stop smoking.