| 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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