Will social smokers quit? Newly released results of secret research by tobacco companies may provide some answers (Image: Harriet Cummings / Alamy)
SECRET research by the tobacco industry designed to pump up sales to “social smokers” is being used for an unlikely purpose: to design anti-smoking strategies.
In 1998, 46 US states sued the big tobacco companies for costs incurred when treating smoking-related health problems. As part of the the industry was forced to make public more than 10 million .
Now Rebecca Schane, a public health researcher at the ,…
