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Although tobacco use is legal, its use is not recommended or prescribed for any therapeutic or medicinal purposes. It is smoked for recreational use as a potent temporary stimulant and mood elevator.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Michael C. Veronesi MD, PhD

  2. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat MD, MS

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  2. Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Juan E. Small

  3. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Veronesi, M.C., Ginat, D.T. (2015). Tobacco. In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_1

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