successful (8% vs. 14%, respectively) in achieving smoking abstinence than white smokers (Center for Disease Control and Prevention 1993). Whether this is attributable to differences in nicotine metabolism (Murray et al. 2001) or environmental circumstances is unknown, but the fact remains that despite smoking fewer cigarettes per day, African Americans are 50% more likely to die from lung cancer than their white counterpart (US Department of Health and Human Services 1998).
