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WASHINGTON _ Watch out, Dr Pepper: A top caffeine researcher thinks you have the potential to be Joe Camel.
With antismoking sentiment snowballing behind strict government regulations, caffeine has supplanted nicotine as America's socially accepted drug of choice.
But people are forgetting that, like nicotine, caffeine is a physically addictive drug that could be harmful, says Dr. Roland Griffiths, a Johns Hopkins pharmacologist.
``Thirty years ago, we just socially accepted smoking as a part of our culture,'' Griffiths says. ``Nicotine really wasn't even considered a drug. I think the same is true of caffeine today.''
Although current medical ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Caffeine replacing nicotine as drug of choice, researcher...