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• Dope smokers get addicted to cigs: study 

Cannabis use is to blame for higher rates of cigarette addiction in alternative lifestyle communities, Australian research shows.

A study of young men living on the NSW north coast suggests that high rates of dope smoking are responsible for high rates of tobacco use, and not vice-versa as was previously thought.

In what researchers have dubbed the "reverse gateway" process, it is claimed many young men become dependent on tobacco because they mix it with cannabis.

"Subsequently, long-term cannabis users find it difficult to quit smoking tobacco because of the reinforcing influence of their cannabis use," said Eric van Beurden, of the North Coast Area Health Service.

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