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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Advance Access originally published online on February 26, 2009
Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2009 11(2):122-125; doi:10.1093/ntr/ntn020
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.Permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Light and intermittent smokers: Background and perspective

Saul Shiffman

Saul Shiffman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Corresponding Author: Saul Shiffman, Ph.D., Smoking Research Group, University of Pittsburgh, 130 North Bellefield Avenue, Suite 510, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Telephone: 412-383-2050. Fax: 412-383-2041. Email: shiffman@pitt.edu

Received: January 8, 2008; Accepted: April 4, 2008
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This special issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research represents a milestone in the thinking in our field about variations in smoking patterns. Over the past several decades, a stereotype has developed—the image of a smoker as consuming one cigarette after another, expressing a constant hunger for nicotine—a need to frequently redose with nicotine to maintain a steady concentration of nicotine in the bloodstream. Like many stereotypes, this one has a large element of truth. Around 1980, the average smoker's daily cigarette consumption was 32 cigarettes/day (Repace & Lowrey, 1980). In other words, in a 16-hr waking day, the typical smoker smoked every 30 min, and smokers who lit up every 15 min (60 cigarettes/day) were not unusual. Smoking, even hourly, results in steady or escalating nicotine levels over the waking day (Benowitz, 1991). This pattern of steady and frequent dosing was striking, indeed, and helped establish . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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