Monteith concluded, in a statement from the American Academy of Neurology, which publishes the journal, "While this investigation of migraine and vascular events in older people found that only smokers with migraine have an increased risk of stroke, earlier studies have shown that women younger than 45 who have migraine with aura are also at an increased risk of stroke, whether or not they smoke." In 2010 researchers determined that people who suffer migraines are about twice as likely as people without the painful headaches to suffer a stroke caused by a blood clot
This is due to the fact that smoking menthol cigarettes was found to be more addictive than regular cigarettes and made it more difficult for people to quit
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[31] To meet demands from the Old World, tobacco was grown in succession, quickly depleting the soil
Given the complications of rigorously controlling the variables sex means different things to different people Grunberg added that it would be "difficult to do a true controlled experiment" investigating the question, but offered a tentative hypothesis