Now, I'm certainly not saying kids should smoke
It is not a tobacco product and is not a safe alternative to smoking
Brunskill was surprised to see the warnings printed on individual cigarettes and said she's "1,000 per cent" sure that she would not have started smoking if she'd seen them as a teen
Nicotine can travel in both particle and gas forms, and it can pass through depending on how the filter is made
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About half also met criteria for another drug use disorder (in addition to alcohol), and their average Fagerstrom nicotine dependence score was 5.2 (SD = 1.9) on a 0 to 10 scale (The Fagerstrom score is a common method to measure physical dependence on nicotine, and in this sample, average score was on the border between moderate and high dependence)
