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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 38 Miscellaneous

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An average of less than one research dollar is spent per nicotine-addicted patient,

compared to $55 for each person with HIV infection.

Alameda County Nicotine-Free Network News, December 1998

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Most smokers do not perceive themselves at increased risk for heart attack (71%) or

cancer (60%).

JAMA 281: 1019-1021, 1999

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In a study from the Harvard School of Public Health, male smokers of more than 15

cigarettes a day had more than a fourfold increased risk of suicide compared to

nonsmoking men. "Although inference about causality is not justified, our findings

indicate that the smoking-suicide connection is not entirely due to the greater

tendency among smokers to be unmarried, to be sedentary, to drink heavily, or to

develop cancers."

American Journal of Public Health, May 2000, p. 768

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New cars are increasingly being manufactured without ashtrays and cigarette lighters.

Models without standard ashtrays and lighters include all Dodge and Chrysler

minivans, Saturn cars, the Cadillac Seville, the Infinity G20, and the Acura TL.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September 15, 1999, pp. 1538-1539

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