In Adolescents, Addiction to Tobacco Comes Easy
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Teenagers can get hooked on one cigarette, a doctor warns.
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Youngsters who begin puberty at an early age are more likely to experiment with and abuse alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana than kids who start puberty at a later age, says a Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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NEW YORK  - Getting teenagers more active   in school life may lower the odds that they will smoke, drink,   use drugs or have sex, a new study suggests.
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Teenagers and young adults who gamble are more likely to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to researchers from Yale University.
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A new study published in The British Medical journal suggests that a genetic defect which slows the liver&#39;s capacity to clear nicotine from the body, boosts the chances of becoming addicted to tobacco, in new, young smokers.
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Children who start dating before their  teens are at least twice as likely as other youngsters to  become smokers, researchers said on Friday.
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The use of marijuana and other illicit drugs declined slightly among teenagers in 2004, but dangerous inhalants and the highly addictive prescription painkiller Oxycontin are
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Even as antismoking campaigns have sharply reduced tobacco use, a recent study suggested that more than half of poor, black young adults smoke cigarettes.
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Black children may be far more  susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke  than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A faulty gene may lead some young teenage smokers to be even more susceptible to years of nicotine dependency, a new study suggests.
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People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking, research suggests.
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A single molecule may be partly to blame for nicotine&#39;s addictive allure, a finding that researchers say could lead to potential therapies to help millions of smokers quit.
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People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking.
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A national study released Thursday showed that teenagers whose friends were sexually active were more likely to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs.
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WASHINGTON - Researchers in California, using genetically modified mice, say they&#39;re closing in on understanding exactly what makes nicotine in tobacco so addictive.
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U.S. state tobacco control programs are effective at cutting the number of smokers, and states that spend more get the best results, federal health officials said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Kids and teenagers exposed to  even trace amounts of secondhand smoke score lower on tests of  reading and reasoning, according to new research.