Although men and women are equally influenced by tobacco, males tend to smoke more than females, finds new research that investigated gender differences in tobacco use among hunter-gathering egalitarian tribes.
“Surprisingly, even there, smoking is definitely a male thing,” said lead researcher Casey Roulette, anthropologist at Washington State University.
The study which focused on West Africa’s Aka pygmy tribe found one of the largest recorded male-biased gender difference in smoking prevalence.