Nicotine Addiction

Depression and exposure to other smokers linked to alternate tobacco product use among teens

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 3rd, 2002

Exposure to family and friends who smoke and elevated levels of depression significantly affect the likelihood of alternate tobacco product use among adolescents, a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Georgetown University indicates.

The study, titled "Psychosocial correlates of alternate tobacco product use during early adolescence," appears in Preventive Medicine (2002;35(2)).

Recent research shows that alternate tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco and moist snuff), cigars, cigarillos, pipes, bidis (sweet flavored cigarettes from Southeast Asia), and kreteks...

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