Are people of European origin genetically prone to nicotine dependence?

**Grumpy Cat** · 03-25-2010, 06:24 AM

Some claim this is how the American Indians got their revenge on the white man for introducing alcohol to their populations.

I found this interesting article:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...165/9/1089.pdf

Anyone know more about this?

**Electronic God-Man** · 03-25-2010, 06:29 AM

pff. Thanks for the cigs, redman. Have a swig of my firewater.

**Grumpy Cat** · 03-25-2010, 06:37 AM

I remember reading a study on smoking habits by race in the US and it claimed that minorities who were smokers smoked fewer cigarettes on average than whites. I read it in a magazine. I should find try to that article online. It was interesting.

Edit here's some articles:

Waiting to Exhale: More White Teenagers Smoke Than Blacks

Smoking Cessation Factors Among African-Americans and Whites

Smoking Patterns in African-Americans and Whites

**~~Radojica~~** · 03-25-2010, 08:55 AM

Cool, it would be nice to be like that. I only wonder, what kind of revenge white men from Serbia is going to have for smoking of depleted uranium

?

**~~Treffie~~** · 03-25-2010, 10:01 AM

As a side, scientists are starting to think that bees have a nicotine/caffeine dependency

**Electronic God-Man** · 03-26-2010, 08:14 AM

Europeans seem to be more resilient to all sorts of horrible toxins.

Maybe we take in more of these things because they make us less sick than others...even though it will ultimately lead to problems.

PS. Filth and bubonic plague FTW!

**Tabiti** · 03-26-2010, 09:16 AM

I guess smoking is not connected with race, but with culture and social status. For example, Bulgaria and Greece are around the top of most smoking nations in the world.
Gypsies smoke since kids and I guess their smoking rate is similar with ours. Turks usually don't smoke that much, because of the religion, especially those in villages.

**~~Arne~~** · 03-26-2010, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by Tabiti

I guess smoking is not connected with race, but with culture and social status. For example, Bulgaria and Greece are around the top of most smoking nations in the world.
Gypsies smoke since kids and I guess their smoking rate is similar with ours. Turks usually don't smoke that much, because of the religion, especially those in villages.

You would wonder HOW many changed their view about that after immigrating to germany.