Joo-Young Na; Jeong-Woo Park; Dong-Woo Kim; Ji-Ye Lee

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Na, Park, Kim, and Lee: Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article “Suicidal Death by Nicotine Poisoning” by Jun et al.

Letter to the Editor

Korean J Leg Med 2015;39(2):53-54.

Published online: 17 January 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7580/kjlm.2015.39.2.53

Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article “Suicidal Death by Nicotine Poisoning” by Jun et al.

Joo-Young Na¹, Jeong-Woo Park¹, Dong-Woo Kim², Ji-Ye Lee³

¹Forensic Medicine Division, Gwangju Institute, National Forensic Service, Jangseong, Korea

²Toxicology Division, Gwangju Institute, National Forensic Service, Jangseong, Korea

³Scientific Investigation Section, Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency, Muan, Korea

Correspondence to Joo-Young Na Forensic Medicine Division, Gwangju Institute, National Forensic Service, 687 Chungnyeong-ro, Seosam-myeon, Jangseong 515-822, Korea Tel: +82-61-393-8442 Fax: +82-61-393-8440 E-mail: pdrdream@gmail.com

Received 17 April 2015 Revised 28 April 2015 Accepted 8 May 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Fig. 1.

A bottle was found at the death scene.

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