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'Teen smokers can get addicted to marijuana'
Monday May 06, 2013 09:50:29 PM,
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Washington:
Scientists have shown that teens who smoke are predisposed to
getting addicted to marijuana, says a study.
New research presented May 5, at the Pediatric Academic Societies
(PAS) annual meeting here supports the theory that cigarettes are
a gateway drug to marijuana.
"Contrary to what we would expect, we also found that students who
smoked both tobacco and marijuana were more likely to smoke more
tobacco than those who smoked only tobacco," said study author
Megan Moreno, an investigator at Seattle Children's Research
Institute and associate professor of pediatrics at the University
of Washington.
Moreno and her colleagues randomly selected incoming college
students from two universities, one in the Northwest and one in
the Midwest to participate in the longitudinal study.
Students were interviewed prior to entering college and again at
the end of their freshman year regarding their attitudes,
intentions and experiences with substances, reports Science Daily.
Specifically, students were asked if they had used tobacco or
marijuana ever in their lives and in the past 28 days. Researchers
also assessed the quantity and frequency of marijuana and tobacco
use in the past 28 days.
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