"Smoking is a chronic disease like other diseases"

More than 300,000 French people buy nicotine substitutes (patch, chewing gum or chewing gum, lozenge, inhaler …) every month since September, reveals franceinfo Thursday 29 November. Since May, the government has introduced the reimbursement of these substitutes by social security. There is no more ceiling and no more money in pharmacy. As a result, doctors' prescriptions jumped + 66% over last year. "Smoking is a chronic disease like other diseases," Marion Adler, a tobacco expert, told franceinfo.

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