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While antismoking campaigns which focus on teens may be useful, an important aim is to determine the ways in which these specific genes influence progression to begin smoking, and to further evaluate whether medications currently on the market which reduce cigarette cravings have any influence on these high risk genes.
FORBES: Genetic Factors Linked to Smoking Addiction in Teens
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The study is particularly important because an NIH study, AIM-HIGH, was stopped earlier than expected, in April 2011, because it was so clear that the extended release niacin provided no benefits and continuing the trial would not be helpful.
FORBES: Lessons From Merck's Niacin Failure
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The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.
BBC: China's female astronaut quandary