Nicotine patches might be at equal risk of causing cancer as the ....

[BuGlen]

One self proclaimed health site on the web seems to have decided to promote the "nicotine causes cancer" BS in a different way. I wonder if the BP funded ANTZ saw this coming...

www.
thehealthsite.com/
news/nicotine-patches-might-be-at-equal-risk-of-cancer-as-the-..../

(copy and paste broken link into your browser to read the editorial)

 

[rothenbj]

I believe this might be the referenced study-

PLOS ONE: Characterizing the Genetic Basis for Nicotine Induced Cancer Development: A Transcriptome Sequencing Study

I left this comment-

Did you possibly consider putting a link to this "ground breaking" "new" study? The closest I could find was about a year old and the results were a far cry from your claim.

After some wide speculation on your part, you go into the other smoke cessation techniques but include NRT which the first couple paragraphs were written about.

I think your editorial team needs rehab on writing editorials.

 

[nicetucu]

Sorry to off topic but noticed the above poster has saved enough money not smoking to put a down payment on a house or a afford a decent car! Was doing the math and either you smoked 3 packs a day or cigs are very expensive in your state.

Carry on.

 

[rothenbj]

Yup, you did the math correctly, between 2-3 packs a day. It was getting pretty ugly. It reminded me of my aunt who I swear never had a moment without a cigarette lit and she taught early elementary school. I always wondered if she smoked that much in the classroom. I'm sure she should have been a smoking related mortality even thlough she lived till she was 86 or 87.

 

[rothenbj]

Further OT, Had a house and didn't need a car so I filled my garage with 4 motorcycles and still have money left over. Had to keep my dangerous habits at some level.

 

[AgentAnia]

What I took away from OP's linked article: It seems to be a thinly veiled advert for Allen Carr's stop-smoking book.

Quote of the day: "Some electronic cigarettes also have nicotine filters."

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

Further OT, Had a house and didn't need a car so I filled my garage with 4 motorcycles and still have money left over. Had to keep my dangerous habits at some level.

I was 3 packs a day and since vaping am much poorer right now. Mrs. Kodiak has spent "in advance", my estimated savings from smoking over my remaining life span. (So she can enjoy those finer things now as she says).

I have been ordered to live until I'm 97 and "pretend" I'd still be smoking all that time.

 

[Stosh]

On topic, the site shows a picture of an M-401 as an example of an e-cig...talk about out of touch...

http:/
/www.thehealthsite.
com/diseases-conditions/
electronic-cigarettes-what-are-they/

OT- the longer you vape, it's amazing how much you can save, or spend on other things...