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For decades tobacco companies have twisted and obscured information, seeded and sold doubt, worked to discredit scientists and public health advocates, made their products more addictive and harder to quit, capitalized on residents of lower-income communities, and pushed menthol cigarettes in Black communities to the point that Black Americans die disproportionately from tobacco-related illnesses
They found that using combination NRT (patch + fast-acting form such as gum, lozenges or spray) increases the rate of successfully quitting by about 25%, compared with single form NRT (either a patch or a fast-acting form alone)
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