Posted on 02/26/2007 5:58:28 AM PST by Calpernia
While spending billions preaching about deterring your kids from smoking, two new studies suggest big tobacco may actually have engaged in a backdoor effort to increase Nicotene content in cigarettes.
Studies done by the Massachusetts Health Department and Harvard indicate Nicotene content in some major brands such as Newport, Camel and Doral increased as much as 11 percent. One of the largest selling brands, Marlboro, showed no Nicotene increase during the years both studies were conducted, 1997 to 2005. Doctor Michael Steinberg of U-M-D-N-J's Tobacco Dependence Program says it is in their best business interests to make their product as hard to quit as possible.
Cigarettes are not regulated by the U-S F-D-A, and are not required to list Nicotene content on packs.
nAChR = nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
"The main targets of the insecticide imidacloprid are neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors within the insect brain."
"Imidacloprid was a partial nicotinic agonist, since it elicited only 36% of ACh-induced currents and competitively blocked 64% of the peak ACh-induced currents. GABA-induced currents were partially blocked when imidacloprid was coapplied and this block was independent upon activation of nAChRs. Our results identify the honeybee nAChR as a target of imidacloprid and an imidacloprid-induced inhibition of the insect GABA receptor."
Nicotine enhances cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, and retention through activation of brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).
The most common nicotinic receptors found in the brain are the low affinity a 7-nAChR and the high affinity a 4b2-nAChR. a 7.
***Imidacloprid, which is being sprayed as an insecticide, it is an agnostic. An agnostic is used to affect the addictive properties and some of the side-effects of nicotine.***
Study on Imidacloprid by: University of Illinois http://uiuc.edu
Why can't these people spell "nicotine"?
Previous thread/bump list on UMDNJ investigations:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593821/posts
UMDNJ chief to press for change
Thread showing affects of imidacloprid:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785723/posts
Mysterious illness stings beekeepers
I'm glad I quit.
So the article won't come up in searches?
Interesting point.
No such thing as "Nicotene".
It would be silly to think that a cigarette manufacturer would not regulate the level of nicontine in their product. It is simple quality control. The customer wants to get the predictable product, each and every time he opens the package.
Tobacco is a variable product. If a manufacturer did not regulate the level of nicotine in their cigarettes, the nicotine content would be all over the board, and the customer would not know what he was buying.
The methodology behind the Mass studies has been severely taken to task by Tobacco Control activist Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston College's School of public Health.
Ditto. March, 1986.
"...may have actually..."
If a study can not say with certainty that something is true, just shut up and keep studying until you can.
July 1994.
All I have to see is "Big Tobacco" in the title and I know the slant of the article. When did they start adding "nicotene" to cigarettes? I've never heard of it.
Here is another article for review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/health/31nicotine.html
The level of nicotine that smokers typically consume per cigarette has risen 10 percent in the past six years, making it harder to quit and easier to be addicted, said a report that the Massachusetts Department of Health released on Tuesday.
The study shows a steady increase in the amount of nicotine delivered to the smokers’ lungs regardless of brand, with overall yields increasing 10 percent.
Massachusetts is one of three states to require tobacco companies to submit information on nicotine testing to its specifications and is the sole state with data as far back as 1998.
The study found that the three most popular brands with young smokers, Marlboro, Newport and Camel, delivered significantly more nicotine than they did six years ago. Nicotine consumed in Kool, a popular menthol brand, rose 20 percent.
Doc Siegel has been talking about this since the reports came out:
He has numerous commentaries on it and how it is being used to push FDA control. Siegel is not some pro-smoker, he has been a Tobacco Control Professional for more than 20 years. Some of his comments on this are eye openning.
I was thinking the same thing.
If you are a smoker or a doctor with smoking patients wouldn't you prefer higher nicotine? That way you can get the same nicotine with less smoke damage.
So true; in fact, vitamin and herb manufacturers are legally required to do this, and it's marketed as quality control.
Tobacco manufacturers ought to re-package nicotine as a memory herb. They could probably get more for it than they do for cigarettes, as some of those memory vitamens are pretty pricey.
it's no secret that they have been hiking the content- but ya know what? Smokers didn't care! not for the most part- it's only the lawyers and folks who smell big fat lawsuits trhat all of a sudden 'care'
The following link is a signature link and does not relate to this thread http://sacredscoop.com
Studies done by the Massachusetts Health Department and Harvard indicate Nicotine content in some major brands such as ... Camel ... as much as 11 percent.
Ah-hah! I wondered why I felt 11% better.
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em boys!
(dammit, where'd I put my Zippo??? Oh, here.. whew!)
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