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Promoting Adolescent Smoking Cessation Is Worth the Effort
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:419-420.
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We read with great interest the article by Hurt et al titled "Nicotine
Patch Therapy in 101 Adolescent Smokers," published in the January 2000 issue
of the ARCHIVES.1 Their article is an important
contribution to the field of adolescent smoking cessation—a field that
is still in its infancy. We recently did a MEDLINE query examining the number
of studies offering treatment options to physicians for adolescent smoking
cessation compared with those for illnesses and disease processes that affect
proportionately fewer persons. Although an estimated 1 million adolescents
begin smoking annually, and although cigarette smoking continues to be the
largest cause of preventable illness and death in the United States, the number
of studies dedicated to smoking cessation interventions was woefully small.2, 3, 4 Research on
muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis—severe but certainly less prevalent
health problems—outnumbered smoking cessation research by greater than
25 to 1 and 10 to 1, respectively.
Of concern . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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