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Even more than growing up in a home where the mother smokes, prenatal exposure to smoke may predispose children to early smoking experimentation.
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Cornelius, M., Leech, S., Goldschmidt, L., and Day, N. (2000) Prenatal tobacco exposure: Is it a risk factor for early tobacco experimentation? Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2:45-52. (Reported in NIDA Notes, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2001.)
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The typical spit tobacco user is a young white male between the ages of 16 and 30 years living in either rural or suburban areas. In fact, the highest use is among high school boys --158 out of every 1,000 (15.8%). Source |
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