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. 2005 Sep;2(9):e266; quiz e351.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020266. Epub 2005 Sep 27.

Will nicotine genetics and a nicotine vaccine prevent cigarette smoking and smoking-related diseases?

Wayne D Hall  1
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Will nicotine genetics and a nicotine vaccine prevent cigarette smoking and smoking-related diseases?

Wayne D Hall. PLoS Med. 2005 Sep.

Abstract

Hall argues that the preventive use of genetic and vaccine biotechnologies is a superficially attractive tobacco policy option of doubtful efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and ethicality.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The work reported in this paper was funded by start-up funding for the Office of Public Policy and Ethics provided by the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fund of the University of Queensland.

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Figure 1. Gross Pathology of the Lung Showing Centrilobular Emphysema Characteristic of Smoking
(Photo: Edwin P. Ewing, Jr./Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Vaccination against nicotine could reduce relapse to smoking in abstinent smokers
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