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Research questions cost of smoking
Conclusion does not support assumptions about impact on health care
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BOSTON (AP) — Would health
costs go down if everyone stopped
smoking? Does cracking down on
underage cigarette sales make teen
agers smoke less?
If the answer to both ques
tions seems like an obvious “y es >”
think again.
Two new studies show evidence to
the contrary
One study looked at the eco
nomic impact if every smoker
went cold turkey tomorrow. The
conclusion: Health care costs
would drop for a while but would
then inexorably rise for the simple
reason nonsmokers live longer.
The other study found even
with strict enforcement of laws
against selling cigarettes to any
one under 18, teen-agers still can
get them easily and smoke just as
much, if not more.
Both works, published in Thurs
day’s issue of the New England jour
nal of Medicine, challenge simple as
sumptions about the causes and
consequences of smoking.
An estimated 3,000 children take
up cigarettes each day in the Unit
ed States. Making cigarettes harder
to buy is the cornerstone of a new
effort by the Food and Drug Ad
ministration to keep them out of
the hands of teen-agers.
The FDA rules, which went into
effect last February, require stores to
get photo identification from anyone
who looks younger than 27. A feder
al goal is to have at least 80 percent of
stores obey the laws.
Nevertheless, enforcement has
received little testing to make sure
it works. So a team led by Dr. Nan
cy A. Rigotti of Massachusetts
General Hospital set out to com
pare high school students’ access
to cigarettes in six Massachusetts
towns — three where tobacco
sales laws were beginning to get
strict enforcement and three
where the laws were not enforced,
even though underage sales were
still illegal.
“It looks like keeping teen
agers from buying cigarettes will
be more difficult than was first ex
pected,” Rigotti said. “Even when
80 percent of merchants obeyed
the law, young people said they
had little trouble buying.”
The study was conducted from
1994 to 1996. In the enforcement
towns, stores were barred from sell
ing to youngsters under 18., but they
did not have to ask for an ID from
everyone who looked young.
The researchers tested compli
ance by sending 16-year-old girls into
stores to buy cigarettes. The girls
could not lie about their age or show
fake IDs.
By the study’s end, 18 percent of
the stores in the towns with enforce
ment were still selling cigarettes to
the decoys, compared with 55 per
cent in die other towns.
A survey of 17,603 high school
students found enforcement did
nothing to control teen-age smok
ing. Both before and after enforce
ment, 15 percent of students said
they had bought cigarettes within
the past month. After enforce
ment, the number of daily smok
ers actually rose slightly from 11
percent to 13 percent.
Rigotti said even a few stores
willing to sell to teen-agers can
supply many of those who want
to smoke. Furthermore, stores
that won’t sell to the decoys
sometimes still sell to youngsters
they know.
“There is no one silver bullet,”
said Gregory Connolly, head of
Massachusetts’ tobacco control
program. “Reduced access alone
won’t cure youth smoking."
Also needed, he said, are high
er cigarette prices, antismoking
campaigns in the media and stiffer
clean-air rules.
The other study in the journal
challenges the often-cited belief
smoking drives up health costs,
since it contributes to cancer,
heart disease and lung disease.
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Crohn’s disease treatment shows promise
BOSTON (AP) — Injections of an antibody that tar
gets a natural human protein are showing promise in
hard-to-treat cases of Crohn’s disease, a chronic di
gestive illness.
The treatment involves injections of an antibody
called cA2. The antibody neutralizes a protein known
as tumor necrosis factor, thought to play a role in caus
ing Crohn’s disease.
The Associated Press first reported the develop
ment last year when it was presented at a medical
conference in San Francisco. The study now is being
published in Thursday’s issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine.
The treatment, which is not yet approved for rou
tine use, was developed by Centocor Inc. of Malvern,
Pa. The company financed the study, which was
conducted on 108 patients by Dr. Stephen R. Targan
and colleagues from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Eos Angeles.
Crohn’s disease is an inflammation of the digestive
tract. Symptoms can include diarrhea, pain, fever and
weight loss. Some patients need surgery to remove
damaged parts of their intestines.
All of the patients in the study had moderate to se
vere disease and had failed to respond to standard
medicines.
A month after treatment, two-thirds of those getting
cA2 showed considerable improvement, and half of
those who improved got so much better doctors con
sidered them to be in remission. After three months, the
effects had begun to wear off, but 41 percent of the pa
tients still were significantly better.
The treatment appears to carry no significant side
effects. The researchers caution more testing will be
necessary to see how long improvements last and to
study the effects of repeat injections.
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