Nicotine raises blood sugar levels

[Traver]

I'm not sure how important this is but some people here might be interested and it's in a major e zine.

Nicotine Raises Blood Sugar Levels in Lab - US News and World Report

Another article on the same subject.

Nicotine Can Raise A1c Over 30%

 

[Rosco]

Well...from someone who hase been testing their blood sugar levels about eight(8) times a day, I can not vouch for this..at all..zilch.Period.

 

[Vocalek]

Results seen in a lab petrie dish may not translate to real world occurrences.

The only group of people we have data on who have used nicotine long-term without the smoke are Swedish snus users.

Results are contradictory regarding whether snus contributes to an increased risk of age-related diabetes (type-2 diabetes). The largest and most recent Swedish study (Eliason et al, Journal of Internal Medicine 2004) found no verifiably increased risk of age-related diabetes among snus users, although it did find this among smokers.

An expert panel has conducted a risk assessment (published in Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers 2004) of snus and other products. Choosing snus instead of smoking reduces the risk of death from a tobacco-related disease (defined as lung cancer, oral cancer, coronary diseases and premature death) by 90 percent, according to the assessment.

Professors Brad Rodu and Philip Cole:

With Swedish tobacco habits,
200,000 lives would be saved each
year within the EU.

Research on snus - Swedish Match

Thus, I believe that advising long-term nicotine product users to stop is quite premature and quite possibly very harmful.

"We want you to stop chewing Nicorette because it might increase your risk of diabetes."

So the chewer complies, relapses to smoking, and ends up with diabetes.

 

[Traver]

Results seen in a lab petrie dish may not translate to real world occurrences.

There was a good comment with the article pointing this out. It is also a unpublished report that hasn't been subject to peer review.

 

[rothenbj]

I commended to Traver's first link-

To be safe and in line with the do no harm medical principle, all NRT products should immediately be removed from the market. An expensive product that is extremely ineffective in the long run should be eliminated if it can lead to an increase in diabetes.

Michael, the credibility of you fictional "alien Lovers Society" might not be that questionable if it only reviewed research coming from the left coast where they know how to spin a yarn.

This is a serious blow to the Pharma industry, watch the stocks plummet at market open. NOT

 

[sqirl1]

like hell it does. most tobacco products actually have sugar in them, which is the REAL culprit here, no doubt about it. not sure if the FDA's flavor ban bars sugar from being added to cigs or not, but I know if it does, they definitely did before. what a load of crap.