Adolescent smokers ’ response to reducing the nicotine content of cigarettes: Acute effects on withdrawal symptoms and subjective evaluations

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide (WHO, 2015), and smokers on average lose ten years of life expectancy compared to nonsmokers (Thun et al., 2013). The vast majority of adult cigarette smokers begin smoking in adolescence (USDHHS, 2013) and early smoking onset is correlated with increased dependence and greater risk for smoking-related disease and death (Jha et al., 2013; Kendler et al., 2013; Marshall et al., 2006). As of 2016, 18.2% of high schoolers in the United States had ever tried cigarettes (Johnston et al., 2017).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - May 10, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Rachel N. Cassidy, Suzanne M. Colby, Jennifer W. Tidey, Kristina M. Jackson, Patricia A. Cioe, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Dorothy Hatsukami Tags: Full length article Source Type: research