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Merilee D. Karr, MD
The Family Practice Clinic Oregon City, Ore

JAMA. 1992;267(24):3284.

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To the Editor.

—Thank you for the December 11, 1991, issue devoted to smoking. One value of these single-topic issues is in the questions sparked by juxtaposition of different articles on related topics. For example, the article by DiFranza et al¹ describing cigarette marketing to children empathetically notes that adolescent girls fear gaining weight as a consequence of quitting smoking. In the same issue, 20 pages previous, the Transdermal Nicotine Study Group reports that transdermal nicotine reduces the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.² Did transdermal nicotine also reduce the frequency of weight gain? . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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