Chapter 20 Nicotine and Addiction

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Nicotine and Addiction: General

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Of those who ever experiment with cigarettes, about 75% eventually escalate to

regular smoking. Fewer than 10% of smokers are able to smoke occasionally on a

non-daily basis.

British Journal of Addiction 85:295, 1990

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There are 15,000 cases a year reported to poison control centers of children eating

cigarette butts or whole cigarettes. The number of cases of actual nicotine poisoning

is unclear.

Dean Edell, MD, ABC News, San Francisco, March 1, 1996

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"Cigarettes are as addictive as any substances we know."

Stanton Peele, author, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, Washington Post

National Weekly Edition, August 8, 1994, p. 38

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A pack a day smoker receives 70,000 to 100,000 boluses or "hits" of nicotine per

year, or two to three hundred a day. With inhalation, nicotine reaches the brain within 7

seconds, more than twice as rapidly as it takes for heroin to reach the brain from an

injection site in the arm.

Pediatrics in Review, July 1993, p. 275, and Science 80, September 1980, p.41

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40% to 50% of smokers who have surgery for lung cancer, have a cancerous larynx

removed, or suffer a heart attack resume smoking on discharge from the hospital.

Tobacco Control, Summer 1994, p. 149

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