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. 1978 Oct 28;2(6146):1185-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6146.1185.

Deception among smokers

R W Sillett, M B Wilson, R E Malcolm, K P Ball

Deception among smokers

R W Sillett et al. Br Med J. .

Abstract

Subjects in two different clinical trials who had been advised to stop smoking were asked if they had done so. Some 22% of subjects (11 out of 51) in the first trial and 40% (33/82) in the second trial who said they had stopped smoking were found to have raised carboxyhaemoglobin concentrations. Deception appears to be common in people trying to stop smoking.

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