Jump to full article: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (au), 2003-06-01
Intro: The earlier the age at which smoking starts the greater the degree of nicotine dependency in later life, a French research team reports.
The study was carried out on rats but the researchers, led by Pier Vincenzo Piazza, say the findings are "relevant for extrapolation to humans".
They introduced groups of rats to nicotine at two different ages - around adolescence (from about a week before puberty to a few days after it) and in post-adolescence. . .
The findings appear in the June issue of the Journal of Neuroscience and are the work of INSERM unit 588.
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