*Bozarth, Michael (use Bozarth, Michael A.)
DefenseMichael Bozarth is an associate professor of psychology at State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Bozarth, 43, specializes in behavioral neurobiology - or the effects of addictive drugs in animals. His research has centered on the effects of cocaine and heroine on animals. Until recently, he says, "I was never interested in nicotine much." But tobacco industry lawyers approached him after he questioned nicotine's addictiveness at a 1990 conference. In August, he testified for the industry before the FDA's Substance Abuse Advisory Committee, which concluded that cigarettes are addictive. This year (1995), he says, he received $250 thousand dollars from Philip Morris Co.'s to study nicotine's effect on the brain. He is working on his first paper on nicotine, which challenges the addiction theory. While Dr. Bozarth conceived that a tiny minority of smokers may be addicted to nicotine, he thinks they are anomalies. He sites his own studies, in which rats failed to learn to administer nicotine, as they did heroin or cocaine. Dr. Bozarth, who smokes up to 35 cigarettes a day and has no desire to quit, is a member of Dr. Warburton's ARISE. He taught smoking for relief of stress. (Tobacco Dream Team: Experts Who Insist Nicotine Isn't Addictive, WSJ 3/23/95)