Friday, February 15, 2008

In Adolescents, Addiction to Tobacco comes Easy


Dire warning to all adolescents: You can get “hooked from the first cigarette.”
That is the headline in the December issue of The Journal of Family Practice. In the report that follows, Dr. Joseph R. DiFranza, a family health and community medicine specialist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, states that “very soon after that first cigarette, adolescents can experience a loss of autonomy over tobacco.”


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