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Stop smoking programs that prescribe just the Patch usually have Success rates of about 15 percent. The drug helped Block the craving for the effects of nicotine on the nervous system Rose said. He published his findings in november in experimental and clinical psychopharmacology Magazine. Nerve fibres in the brain and airways Send pleasurable and calming sensations to the body when they react to nicotine said Rose chief of the nicotine research lab at the veterans affairs medical Center in Durham. He tested whether he could satisfy some of the nerve fibres with nicotine from the Patch and Block others with Mccamy  say Mccamy Lamine never caught in the 1970s because studies showed the drug alone could not break smokers craving for nicotine. Drunken driving toll Down but still too High report says by the Washington Post Drunken driving appears to have do Clinch in the past  it still takes a huge toll in mainly Young lives the centers for disease control and prevention reports. More than 40,000 americans died in traffic accidents in 1993. Alcohol was involved in More than 17,000 of those fatal ties. About one of. Every 100 licensed Drivers was arrested in 1992 for driving while impaired motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for americans under .35. A a by Vav Quot a a the Atlanta Agency known As the cd defines an alcohol related traffic fatality As a death in which either a Driver a pedestrian or a bicyclist had a blood alcohol level of at least .01 Grams per Decalier a the Point where booze can impair driving. The Legal limit for intoxication is higher a a blood alcohol level of at East 0.1 in most states for adults. Twenty nine states have tougher limits for Drivers under 21. The number of alcohol related traffic deaths in the United states declined 31 percent from 25,165 in 1982 to 17,461 in 1993, the cd found. Those deaths accounted for More than half a 57 percent a of All traffic fatalities in 1982 but 44 percent in 1993. The cd report attributed the decline to several factors including the increasing social unacceptability of Drunken driving tighter blood alcohol limits defining intoxication tougher enforcement of state Laws against Drunken driving a Rise in the minimum drinking age to 21, greater us of safety belts and decreased per capita alcohol consumption. Since 1982, the percentage of traffic fatalities involving alcohol has declined in every state except Idaho Louisiana and Missouri. The cd also looked at How Many Drivers in fatal crashes had blood alcohol Levels above .01. In 1993, it ranged from a Low of 15 percent in Maryland to a High of 43 percent in Montana. The still devastating toll in injuries and deaths from Drunken driving the. 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