This article focuses on two questions: To what extent can the attitude toward and the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee be explained by a genetic factor? and To what extent can heredity be the link between two personality traits, anxiety and extroversion-introversion, and the attitude toward the consumption of these three products?
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