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Jump to full article: Reuters Health, 2003-06-10
Author: Keith Mulvihill
Intro: Five percent of high school students in a survey said they have used nicotine patches or gum -- including some smokers and non-smokers who misuse the products, U.S. researchers reported Monday. . .
information on whether teens use nicotine replacement appropriately has been "sparse," according to the study authors, led by Dr. Lisa M. Klesges of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
To investigate, the researchers surveyed more than 4,000 high school students in Memphis about smoking habits and use of nicotine replacement therapy, or NRT.
Overall, five percent said they had tried nicotine patches or gum, the researchers report in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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