Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,alt.drugs
From: [k--d--e] at [cs.uiuc.edu] (Carl M Kadie)
Subject: Cigarettes as gateway to hard drugs
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 20:31:54 GMT

From:  clari.news.smoking, etc.

[c--i--s] at [clarinet.com] (Reuter/David Lawsky) writes:


[Joseph Califano heads Columbia University's Center on Addiction
and Substance Abuse]

>	 Califano released a report by the Columbia University Center
>on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
>	 The report said cigarette smoking will increase the costs of
>the Medicare Trust Fund, which pays for health care to the
>elderly, by $800 billion over the next 20 years.
>	 Califano said the use of cigarettes by 12-to-17-year olds is
>associated with increased use of drugs.
>	 ``Cigarettes are a drug of entry for teen-agers to the world
>of hard drugs,'' Califano testified. He said that heavy
>cigarette smokers among teen-agers are 111 times as likely to
>use crack as non-smokers, 105 times as likely to use cocaine and
>51 times as likely to use heroin.

- Carl
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