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The Truth About Nicotine: November 2010
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The Truth About Nicotine. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. WHO FCTC May Kill Millions of Smokers. It is shocking to read that the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) want to prevent the use of two of the most effective methods for achieving smoking abstinence. ( http:/ www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1011/S00426/tobacco-convention-agree-on-stronger-smoking-controls.htm. Dr Karl Erik Lund compared quit rates, defined as the percentage of ever smokers who are ...
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The Truth About Nicotine: March 2011
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The Truth About Nicotine. Saturday, March 26, 2011. Boston Public Health Commission's Facebook Page. Started a new discussion topic:. Http:/ www.facebook.com/topic.php? I notice that the Commission is promoting the idea of using the patch to quit smoking. True, using nicotine reduction/weaning therapy does double the 3% success rate achieved by going cold turkey, but why is 6% or 7% considered good enough? Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Americans for Some Nonsmokers' Rights. Can you help to protect my right t...
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The Truth About Nicotine: August 2010
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The Truth About Nicotine. Thursday, August 19, 2010. Central Michigan University: Just Keep Smoking, Kids. If the pronoun “they” refers to e-cigarettes, Mr. Holtgreive has a credibility problem. No such research exists. Smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide, particles of ash, and thousands of chemicals created by the process of combustion. Many of these are present in exhaled tobacco smoke. The vapor from an e-cigarette does not contain any of these constituents because nothing is burned. These same survey...
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The Truth About Nicotine: September 2010
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The Truth About Nicotine. Wednesday, September 22, 2010. FDA Can’t Handle the Truth. Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) invited the public to submit suggestions to the Center for Tobacco Products for educational resources to be added to the training program for Tobacco Retailers. http:/ tobaccoideas.fda.gov/forums/76427-improving-fda-tobacco-retailer-communication-tools. I submitted the following suggestion on September 19, 2010. I noticed the following message on the page. I clicked th...
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The Truth About Nicotine: Inexpert Opinion
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The Truth About Nicotine. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Often when writing an otherwise positive story on e-cigarettes, journalists go looking for someone in the medical profession to supply a quote in opposition to the devices. It’s just too bad that some of these experts don’t bother conducting a modicum of research to determine whether their opinion is supported by the facts. Http:/ tobaccoharmreduction.org/wpapers/011v1.pdf. Https:/ www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx? The medical world tends to disbelieve ...
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The Truth About Nicotine: Nicotine--not a cause of relapse to smoking
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The Truth About Nicotine. Thursday, October 6, 2011. Nicotine- not a cause of relapse to smoking. Many folks believe that if a smoker switches to a different source of nicotine, it is inevitable that he or she will start smoking again. But is that true? The number of e-cigarette consumers reaching 1 year, 2 years, and even 3 years of smoke-free living is growing exponentially. Has the lowest smoking rate in the European Union (14%) and the lowest lung cancer rate. But. October 10, 2011 at 7:20 AM. I have...
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The Truth About Nicotine: Chronic Conditions Require Ongoing Treatment
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The Truth About Nicotine. Sunday, March 11, 2012. Chronic Conditions Require Ongoing Treatment. Some people have suggested that the way to help more smokers quit is to offer treatment for a longer period- say from 6 to 8 months, as opposed to 6 to 8 weeks. Will that work? What happens when you begin treating someone for hypothyroidism and then have them stop taking levothyroxine? Their symptoms return with a vengeance. But what if you slowly wean them off levothyroxine? It doesn’t matter whether th...
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The Truth About Nicotine: June 2010
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The Truth About Nicotine. Thursday, June 24, 2010. FDA Misleading Report Strategy Backfires. Since the fall of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been at war with the electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) industry. Claiming that the products are drug/device combination products that can be regulated by the agency under the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, (FDCA), FDA began banning the import of e-cigarettes. In June 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (T...
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The Truth About Nicotine: Americans for Some Nonsmokers' Rights
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The Truth About Nicotine. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Americans for Some Nonsmokers' Rights. Proposed legislation that keeps popping up in states and municipalities across the United States contains strangely similar wording calling for e-cigarettes to be included in smoking bans. I tracked down the source of this wording to "Model Legislation" posted on the web site of Americans for Nonsmokers Rights. http:/ www.no-smoke.org/document.php? I left the following message on their Contact Us page:. Perhaps it ...
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The Truth About Nicotine: March 2012
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The Truth About Nicotine. Sunday, March 11, 2012. Chronic Conditions Require Ongoing Treatment. Some people have suggested that the way to help more smokers quit is to offer treatment for a longer period- say from 6 to 8 months, as opposed to 6 to 8 weeks. Will that work? What happens when you begin treating someone for hypothyroidism and then have them stop taking levothyroxine? Their symptoms return with a vengeance. But what if you slowly wean them off levothyroxine? It doesn’t matter whether th...
