Tobacco: The Smoking Gun

A fellow director from Boise sent the following down the pike:

Tobacco: The Smoking Gun, a report on smoking:

Some highlights include:

*The nicotine in tobacco products poses a significant danger of structural and chemical changes in developing brains that can make teens more vulnerable to alcohol and other drug addiction and to mental illness.
*Teens who smoke are nine times likelier to meet the medical criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence and 13 times likelier to meet the medical criteria for abuse and dependence on an illegal drug than teens that don't smoke."

At 10:00 AM EDT today CASA released a new report commissioned
by The Citizens' Commission to Protect the Truth, a group of all former U.S.
Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare and of Health and Human
Services, all former U.S. Surgeons General, and all former Directors of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.