Received this comment to one of my blog posts.
The original comment he left included this text:
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If anyone wants to read the blog post and the entire comment string here's the link:
The Truth About Nicotine: Lung Association Recommends Smoking
I was unable to find anything on the web that verifies his claim about the transformation of nicotine into niacin by burning. Can a chemist please step forward and provide me with some definitive information?
Hi Vocal EK; no offense, but the fact that you hadn't heard that nicotine is transformed into niacin, really has nothing to do with the facts. If you look into it, you'll find that is how your medicinal niacin is actually made. Don't guess; check. Don't ask a doctor, ask an industrial chemist. And anybody who is living in a modern city, breathing mostly car exhausts, eating mostly processed foods, and getting essentially no exercise, has a lot more to worry about than cigarette smoke. Fix up those other things first. You might even find that when your health returns, you don't need to smoke anymore.
The original comment he left included this text:
Nicotine for one could never survive the process of burning because it's flash point is well below the temperature of the idle cigarette ash. What they do inhale is a transformed chemical known as nicotinic acid you might know this as niacin or vitamin B3.
To which I responded:
To Anonymous who left the comment May 9th at 5:32 -- You make some good points about not knowing any more what is truth and which are lies when we have caught not just ALA, but all of the 3-letter health organizations, in several lies. However, this is the first I have heard that nicotine is transformed into niacin in cigarette smoke.
If anyone wants to read the blog post and the entire comment string here's the link:
The Truth About Nicotine: Lung Association Recommends Smoking
I was unable to find anything on the web that verifies his claim about the transformation of nicotine into niacin by burning. Can a chemist please step forward and provide me with some definitive information?
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