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#IWD2022: Top addiction psychologist taking on Big Tobacco

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What I Learned About Smoking

As an undergraduate, you studied psychology and zoology. You got at first and then your phd involved some particularly unusual field work. When i came to do my phd, it was on the development of dependence on smoking in young people. An involved going to a local secondary school in london and taking saliva from them. Asking young women, it was tat, he was a girl's school, to split into tubes and then we took away the saliva and had it measured for nicotine a and anse what it showed was that young people were very quickly taking down significant levels of nicoti from their smoking. It does get you thinking about, how can somebody go on doing something

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