Just to be a child about it, as I'm not quite 50.
If I decided to mix up a bottle of draft beer which would likely be quite lousy (it might rival the worst flavor of all time), then I could logically claim that we've already tried prohibition and it didn't work? Note that I do not actually drink anymore, but you know I find the flavor marketing thing to be more than a little bit overplayed and its supposed to favor one side of the argument only ...
A very old argument below.
This is sold at Walmart ... its not cinnamon gum, but cinnamon rush gum. No marketing involved there. Does this need a picture?
Cherry, am I supposed to to believe this is really going to taste good? Almost looks like cough drops to me.
Not fruit, but fruit wave, and I'm supposed to guess what kind of fruit. The pic suggests strawberries and bananas. Isn't there the danger of a non-smoker trying this for the flavor rush? No?, I'm not interested in this either, even with the mystery involved. Hard to say they didn't try to market this though.
Not mint, but cool mint ... as opposed to warm mint, or warm draft beer just to clarify things, or to market it better?
And finally ... what was the original flavor of this stuff. Was it to terrible to actually find any way to market this at all, so they went with original. Like this stuff is now famous enough for me to just know what it is supposed to be.
This is followed by some facts that quitting smoking is good for you. Promoted by the ALA, no less. I guess its ok for us to get nicotine, and this product does provide exactly that, in some other healthier form, as long as they get to choose it. Oh, but its not about the money, nice try, but it's very hard to convince me of that.
And then the dosing information ... that neglects to tell you, that swallowing 24 pieces of gum a day for 12 weeks, might not be ideal. Though that actually would be following the instructions provided with the product as advertised. It may be in there its to small for me to pick it up though if it is, but they assume the person was a gum chewer in the first place if not which is also not ideal.
It goes on to tell you, why pay for expensive products to quit smoking when you can use this ....
1. It probably won't work. The odds are against it. 4mg, can I just use regular gum and pretend it has nicotine in it, it will likely have the same effect. I know it will empty my wallet at a much slower pace. The actual quit rate of people using products such as these, is really poor. I see nothing in the advertising stating what my chances are though. That is something, I'm not really supposed to know though, of course.
2. Its 25 bucks or more for a 100 pack of nicotine flavored gum. Lets compare that to a regular pack of gum, shall we? Orbit 42 pack of spearmint flavored chewing gum is 2.00 at the same store which in this case is Walmart.
Some simple math ....
Dosing information tells me this that you could likely use, 42 days of 24 pieces, 21 days of 12 pieces, and 21 days of 6 pieces of the product. (42*24)+(21*12)+(21*6) = 1008+252+132 = 1392
1392 pieces of gum at 100 pieces per pack. 14 packs at 25 bucks and I'm being generous is 350 american dollars.
1392 pieces of gum at 170 pieces per pack. 8 packs of the best deal they have is still 200 american dollars.
1392 pieces of orbit at 42 pieces per pack. 34 packs of orbit is 68 american dollars.
My conclusion is there is a lot of money putting an extremely limited quantity of nicotine in gum, but where is the outcry here?
omg. We need a joke thread for these types of articles. 
They just can't go ignored!!!
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