The Attack on Juul Is a Scandal ⋆ Brownstone Institute

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[–]Optimus85Independent 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I quit cigarettes 5 years ago thanks to vaping. I'm still a nicotine addict but I breathe much better(no coughing up brown mucus in the morning), the apartment and my clothes smell much better and by mixing my own liquids with ingredients bought from an online store, I'm saving money as well. They want to ban flavours in Canada because of teens taking up vaping which makes no sense. They're better off vaping than smoking and it's not like kids couldn't get cigarettes if no other alternatives were available. Maybe our political wackos are being bought off by big tobacco...who knows?

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, wouldn't surprise me at all if big tobacco was behind this the same way they lobby to keep marijuana illegal.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The rednecks took abortion away from lefties so the lefties are taking nicotine away from the rednecks.

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Amen.

[–]one1wonIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Biden recently stated he was going after nicotine.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/health/biden-lower-nicotine-transformative/index.html

The “Party of science” apparently determined to wring more $$$$ out of “health care” https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-safe-helps-in-alzheimers-parkinsons/2175396/

For starters, nicotine by itself isn't very addictive at all, according to Dr. Paul Newhouse, the director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Cognitive Medicine. Nicotine seems to require assistance from other substances found in tobacco to get people hooked.

I suspect Big Pharma targeting another (cheaper) option to address the medical conditions addressed in the article.

What makes nicotine especially attractive as a treatment is the fact it causes virtually no side effects, according to Newhouse.

"It seems very safe even in nonsmokers," he said. "In our studies we find it actually reduces blood pressure chronically. And there were no addiction or withdrawal problems, and nobody started smoking cigarettes. The risk of addiction to nicotine alone is virtually nil."

No side-effects means no additional, compensatory medications (ie no additional $) So, Big Pharma versus Big Tobacco. My money is on Pharma to win this.