Come on! Is life really so much easier for white males?

World Ending! Women and Minorities hardest hit! Examiner.com Why it's harder for African Americans to stop smoking With the increase in cigarette tax and the cost of cigarettes officially being much more expensive, it's the perfect time to focus on ways to stop smoking. For many, particularly African Americans who smoke menthol cigarettes, that may be a difficult task. According to researchers, menthol cigarettes are harder to quit, particularly among African American and Latino smokers. That is the finding of a study which examined the effects of menthol on quit rates among a diverse group of nearly 1,700 smokers attending a Tobacco Dependence Clinic at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIDA News Release Quitting Smoking Harder for Women than for Men Review of Research Finds Variety of Reasons for Why It Is Harder for Women to Break Free of Nicotine Addiction A review of numerous research studies focusing on smoking cessation has concluded that while women may suffer greater relative risks of smoking-related diseases than do men, they tend to have less success than men in quitting smoking. Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who conducted the review offers several reasons for this disparity in a paper published in the May 2001 issue of CNS Drugs.