Nicotine withdrawal and road accidents

Jackie Knowles
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Jackie Knowles: Safety and Environment Resource Centre, Transport Research Laboratory

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6740, 128-128

Abstract: Abstract Waters et al.1 suggested that the effects of nicotine withdrawal increase the chances of an accident at work. The second Wednesday of March is ‘No Smoking Day’ (NSD) in the United Kingdom. If the ‘accident effect’ is real, increased numbers of other types of accident would be expected on NSD. I have investigated this possibility by using data from the UK national STATS19 accident reporting system2, which records details of personal injury accidents occurring on public roads in which at least one road vehicle, or a vehicle in collision with a pedestrian, is involved, and which becomes known to the police within 30 days of its occurrence. Damage-only accidents are not included. The date of the accident is also recorded.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/22037

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