Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 13th, 2004
"Tobacco consumption is believed to be one of the world's greatest preventable health problems. According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people worldwide are addicted to nicotine with tobacco causing an estimated four million premature deaths every year," scientists in England report.
"The development of a nicotine conjugate vaccine suggests that immunization may hold promise as a future therapeutic and preventive strategy for tobacco smoking and nicotine addiction," said Andreas Hasman at the University of Oxford...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-10-13)
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