Cigarettes and addiction
- 29 April 1995
- Vol. 310 (6987) , 1082-1083
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6987.1082
Abstract
Tobacco products are not regulated in a way that is consistent with their adverse effects on health and their addictiveness.2 Ironically, in the United States the present system of regulatory oversight of products that deliver nicotine makes it easier to get tobacco products, which cause dependence and disease, than to obtain potentially lifesaving drugs. Thus the most toxic and addictive formulations delivering nicotine—cigarettes and other tobacco products—are readily …Keywords
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