Actually its kind of an urban legend that Turks smoke so much, Gokhan Bicici, a local journalist, said
But anti-tobacco organisations had voiced concern the authorities were dragging their feet on implementing the measures
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This finding is in agreement with other studies showing a low plasma uric acid in regular smokers [14] and a reduction of antioxidants, including uric acid, in smokers, indicating that oxidative stress increases each time a cigarette is smoked [15, 16]
In figure 4, the mortality rates that would be seen at ages 60-64 among those who stop at about age 60 had to be interpolated (half way between the smoker and non-smoker rates), as they could not be assessed directly (partly because of reverse causality and partly because in this study there was often a delay of a few years before the next questionnaire arrived and cessation could be reported)
