The same respondent further questioned the results of a recently published study he had read about. This is a portion of the interchange between the moderator and this participant. “They actually had one study I saw in the paper today that said African Americans are—cigarette smoking affects them more than other racial groups. And I was like [laughs]—I thought that was kind of funny. I wonder how many different groups did they test? If they went across the whole board? Because they didn’t give any other numbers, they just came out with that. That was the blurb line, that we’re more susceptible to cigarettes—smoking cigarettes than other racial groups.”Moderator: Do you think they were saying that African Americans are more genetically predisposed to having negative effects of smoking?“Well, see, the thing about it was it would have to lead to the fact that somebody engineered cigarettes to affect African Americans that way. I mean it’s like—I mean tobacco is a naturally occurring substance until you add all the other stuff in like nicotine and all the other things.”
