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In a study of 3528 participants, 9% reported pipe smoking, 11% reported cigar smoking, and 52% reported cigarette smoking.

Self-reported current pipe and cigar smokers had elevated urine cotinine levels compared with never-smokers.

The blog post below was brought up by the following discussion:

Ves Dimov, M.D. – Observation: The more seasoned doctors are just joining Twitter at a time when “everybody” is leaving for Google Buzz…

Anne Marie Cunningham – I disagree! Twitter is still much more useful for

A few thoughts from my conversation with the Australian ER physician and medical bloggger extraordinaire Mike Cadogan:

Dr Mike Cadogan – Taking advice from @scanman in the short term, and have disconnected Twitter to get a better feel of the Buzz thing. It was interesting to see the initial responses from colleagues about the tweets – but then they just got a bit overwhelmed