Fat smokers beware
It has been common but unproven knowledge for quite some time that people who have given up smoking have found that they put on weight – but how far the two effects are related was always a little in doubt, since the role played by normal middle-age spread was difficult to evaluate. The true position has now been cleared up in an experiment carried out by J. Brozek and A. Keys at the University of Minnesota in the US.
They persuaded a group of normal middle-aged men whose weight they had followed for some years to give up…
