Drugging our kids: Nicotine patches for schoolchildren?

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Smokers have long insisted that cigarettes helped them concentrate. Nicotine, it seems, exhibits powerful pharmacological effects on the brain. Now, some researchers are proposing that nicotine patches could help people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD, depending on which version of the myth you believe).

Nicotine patches for children? Makes perfect sense to some researchers, and it makes a LOT of sense for the companies that manufacture the nicotine patches. With smoking rates slowly falling in the U.S., the market for nicotine patches doesn't have a strong future. But if you can line up schoolchildren to wear them and, of course, get them hooked on nicotine for life, then you generate an extraordinary volume of repeat business.

Schoolchildren are already widely dosed with Ritalin, a strong narcotic. Nicotine is no more bizarre. Make no mistake: these studies on nicotine are little more than a ploy to find new victims to addict to this deadly drug that has already wreaked untold havoc on the U.S. population over the last hundred years. I can't wait to see a study that says children wearing nicotine patches score better on math and reading skills tests. Maybe they'll sell nicotine candy in the high school vending machines right next to the liquid candy known as soft drinks.
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