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OCR Page 1 of 3606/29/98 MON 09:17 FAX 202 690 7425
OPHS EXECUTIVE OFFICE
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JUN 23'98 14:02 FR CDC/OSH-OD
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JUN.22.1998
2:37PM
AMA SCIENCE NEWS
NO.156
P.2/4
American Medical Association
HEALTH
Physicians dedicated to the health of America
TOBACCO-
Minorities
News Release
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 p.m. (CT) Tuesday, July 7, 1998
Media Advisory: To contact Ralph S. Caraballo, Ph.D., call the CDC Office on Smoking and Health at
770/488-5493. To contact Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. call Lordelyn del Rosario at 415/476-2557. To contact
Edward M. Sellers, M.D., call the Univ. of Toronto public affairs office at 416/978-5949.
African American Smokers Have Higher Levels of Metabolized
Nicotine Than Whites, Mexican Americans
Difference may help explain more difficulty in quitting, higher lung cancer rates among African Americans
CHICAGO-African American smokers have higher serum cotinine levels than do white or Mexican American
smokers, even when taking into account the number of cigarettes smoked, according to an article in the July 8
issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
An average of 70 percent to 80 percent of nicotine absorbed into the body from cigarette smoke is metabolized
to cotinine. Cotinine in the blood is believed to be a marker of both tobacco use and exposure to environmental
tobacco smoke.
Ralph S. Caraballo, Ph.D., from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues
investigated differences in levels of serum cotinine in African American, white and Mexican American cigarette
smokers in the U.S. adult population. The researchers obtained data on serum cotinine levels from a
representative sample of adult smokers and nonsmokers of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES III), a nationwide household collection of health and nutritional information from a
representative sample of the U.S. civilian population.
From this data, they found that although African Americans were as likely to have smoked in the past five days
2S whites, they reported smoking fewer cigarettes per day than whites. Mexican Americans smoked fewer
cigarettes per day than did either blacks or non-Mexican American whites.
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