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  1. Ordered Provari

    by , 02-23-2013 at 01:10 AM
    I'm quite happy with Vamo, it is just too big and heavy.
    Provari is obviously cute and well made.
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  2. Abuse Liability Assessment of Tobacco Products Including Potential Reduced Exposure Products (PREPs)

    by , 02-21-2013 at 04:43 PM (A Compendium of Minutiae: Things the FDA knows for sure)
    "In spite of the high predictive validity of existing ALA methodology, the actual abuse liability of any product, including MRTP/PREPs, will ultimately depend on the findings from clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance. However, the predictive validity of the procedures for assessing abuse liability described in this review has been clearly established across many other classes of medications. This provides a good degree of certainty that they will also be valid for assessing new nicotine-containing ...
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  3. Dr. Murray Laugeson: an unbiased scientific approach for a change

    by , 02-21-2013 at 02:14 PM (A Compendium of Minutiae: Things the FDA knows for sure)
    "In the other report, a crossover trial of 40 ENDS-naïve participants, smokers were assigned on different days to use an ENDS with a 16 mg or a 0 mg nicotine cartridge, a nicotine inhaler, or their usual brand of cigarette.7 In a PK study involving a subgroup of nine participants, the 16 mg ENDS yielded a maximum nicotine concentration in blood plasma of 1.3 ng/ml, the inhaler 2.1 ng/ml and the tobacco cigarette 13.4 ng/ml. Importantly, the 16 mg ENDS, 0 mg ENDS and nicotine inhaler all significantly ...
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  4. Maybe Pharmacists will make e liquid

    by , 02-21-2013 at 05:14 AM (A Compendium of Minutiae: Things the FDA knows for sure)
    "Nicotine pops look a lot like regular lollipops, but they smell a little weird and leave a sour aftertaste. Most contain either 2 mg or 4 mg of a chemical called nicotine salicylate and sell for about $3 apiece. They're made by independent pharmacists, who have long had the right to mix various active ingredients, usually following a doctor's orders, into preparations that aren't commercially available."

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...002216,00.html
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  5. The Press: Viruses & Cancer Monday, July 07, 1958 Time Magazine

    by , 02-21-2013 at 03:41 AM (A Compendium of Minutiae: Things the FDA knows for sure)
    "They laughed when I sat down at my test tubes." That is how the - University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist Wendell M. Stanley might have begun his San Francisco lecture. For many physicians thought that Stanley had gone much too far when he suggested that viruses, or virus-like particles, might be responsible for all forms of cancer. But in support of his hypothesis, Stanley last week marshaled a phalanx of evidence from more than a dozen high-powered researchers as well ...
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