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In spite of numerous national campaigns and massive information to the general public, the mean body weight in Sweden, as well as in many other countries in the western world, has increased during the last decade (Kuskowska-Wolk and Rössner, 1990). Unfortunately, this undesirable development cannot be ascribed to the theoretically attractive explanation that fewer people smoke today (Boyle et al, 1994; Wolk and Rössner, 1995). Smoking increases the basal metabolic rate by about 10% and smoking cessation generally results in a mean body weight increase of 3–4 kg (Rössner, 1986). In Sweden, the percentage of the population smoking has fallen during the 1980s from 32% to 27%, but this fall was not associated with the weight increase observed during the same time period. Similar findings were recently described in Australia (Boyle et al, 1994).
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Rössner, S. (1995). Realistic expectations of obesity treatments. In: Cottrell, R. (eds) Weight Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0583-5_8
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