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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 11 > Dr. Murray Jarvik helped invent the nicotine patch

Dr. Murray Jarvik helped invent the nicotine patch

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 11, 2008

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Dr. Murray Jarvik, a pioneer researcher of smoking addiction and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, has died. He was 84.

Jarvik died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica after a long struggle with congestive heart failure, said Mark Wheeler, a health sciences....

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