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Warning: nicotine seriously improves health
The Observer ^
| July 18, 2004
| Robin McKie
Posted on 07/17/2004 5:17:58 PM PDT by MadIvan
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Interesting.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:17:59 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
To: *puff_list; agrace; lightingguy; EggsAckley; dinasour; AngloSaxon; Dont Mention the War; ...
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:18:22 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. - http://www.rightgoths.com/)
To: MadIvan
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:20:22 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: SheLion
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:20:42 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: Nick Danger
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:22:14 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
To: MadIvan
Many moons ago, the comedy managinze "Spy" mentioned as an aside that some
studies had shown some beneficial effects from nicotine, if applied in the right
dose/route.
IIRC, one of these was the use of nicotine to basically prevent all the
negative effects of jet-lag.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:22:44 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Drango
You may believe that the earth is flat, but the nicotine-dopamine connection is very well established.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:23:58 PM PDT
by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: MadIvan; SheLion; Madame Dufarge; metesky
This point is backed by Dr Tony George, of Yale University. 'Smoking is a marker for psychopathology,' he states in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine. Oh, great. Now they're calling us crazy.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:25:51 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Just another Bush-bot biddy drinking that Republican KoolAid.)
To: MadIvan
Well, that explains why about 99% of patients in psych wards smoke like chimneys...
That, and the fact that there's not a lot else to do.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:27:48 PM PDT
by
KangarooJacqui
(http://www.RightGoths.com/ - Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. Wear black and be proud!)
To: MadIvan
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:28:36 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(God Bless Ronald Reagan, and may America Bless God!)
To: MadIvan
If there are benefits to nicotine (and there may well be; this isn't the first time this idea has been advanced), I would assume there are better ways of delivering the drug (patches, pills, gum, whatever) than setting dead leaves afire and sucking the smoke into one's lungs, which is, well, stupid.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:29:23 PM PDT
by
southernnorthcarolina
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results... I hope.)
To: patton
And I predicted this years ago - that all the howling anti-tobacco fanatics would someday learn that nicotine had medicinal properties.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:31:25 PM PDT
by
abclily
To: southernnorthcarolina
setting dead leaves afire and sucking the smoke into one's lungs, which is, well, stupid. LOL
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:31:27 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: southernnorthcarolina
I would assume there are better ways of delivering the drug (patches, pills, gum, whatever)... I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the article. And I'd say many smokers I've known are at least partially psychotic.
To: MadIvan
So maybe smokers would be better off just using a nicotine patch. Then, women who smoke wouldn't develop leathery faces, yellow teeth, and wheezing manly voices.
To: MadIvan
Hi Ivan. I tried to make it up to NY for your visit, but that darn thing called work got in the way. Sorry.
On nicotine, I would bet that 70% of Freepers are smokers. This is based on many, many Freeps. Just an observation now, nothing scientific.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:44:28 PM PDT
by
AGreatPer
(Who authorized Kerry's Purple Hearts?)
To: agrarianlady
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:44:58 PM PDT
by
mcg1969
To: AGreatPer
I would bet that 70% of Freepers are smokers I'll take that bet...
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:52:14 PM PDT
by
Drango
(Stupidity is the only infinitely renewable resource)
To: AGreatPer
Perhaps you should have made your bet, 70% of freepers either smoke or hate smoking nazis, while 30% loathe and despise smokers and would send them to outer space if possible. It's an irrational hatred, I don't get it.
I'm not a smoker, but the domestic partner is and the vast sums of money he spends on the pursuit free me to buy books and other necessities without that annoying guilt thing.
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posted on
07/17/2004 5:58:49 PM PDT
by
altura
To: Judith Anne
"Oh, great. Now they're calling us crazy."
We aren't? I quit smoking three years ago this past April, and my body went to hell. A friend of mine who is an MD said to me in jest, "For fifty years tar and nicotine have held your body together, and now that you have quit smoking it is falling apart."
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posted on
07/17/2004 6:00:17 PM PDT
by
billhilly
(If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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