1. All of the information about nicotine in the article is true. You can find more information at
The Truth About Nicotine and at
Nicotine and addiction. (tobaccoharmreduction.org)
2. The story is actually promotion for a product known generically as "nicotine water."
3. In 2001, the same organizations that are working to get e-cigarettes banned petitioned the FDA to take nicotine water off the market.
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/newproducts/petition4.pdf
4. The FDA pulled the product off the market in 2002, claiming that it was a drug.
There is an interesting history on nicotine water here:
Nicotine Water
I was unable to track down any information on where to
buy these products. The link in the ezine article leads nowhere.
The story of nicotine water illustrates how the FDA, CTFK, ALA, AHA, ACS, AMA, etc., ect. (see names in the petition document linked in #3 above) have been working for years to ensure that smokers are left with only
three alternatives: Quit, Die, or stay on the NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) merry-go-round.
For those who don't know, the NRT merry-go-round works like this. You want to quit smoking, so you spend a bundle on one of the five FDA-approved NRT products--patch, gum, lozenges, nasal inhaler. or prescription oral inhaler. You stop smoking for a few hours, days, weeks, or (if you are lucky) months, then relapse to smoking. After a while, you want to stop smoking again, so you spend a bundle...
These groups have fought against safer alternative sources of nicotine tooth and nail over the years. Maybe nicotine water would not have been any more effective than NRTs, but we never got the chance to make the switch and find out. The problem lies in the fact that the product it is not manufactured by pharmaceutical companies which provide huge donations each year to the ALA, AHA, and ACS for pushing their FDA-approved smoking cessation products. CTFK is supported mostly by
tobacco Settlement funds. "About 3.2 percent of CTFK funding comes from the drug industry, and the group was founded with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which in turn was created by the family of the founder of the Johnson & Johnson healthcare products firm. Some critics say that the industry benefits from supporting CTFK because pharmaceutical firms sell drugs that help people quit smoking."
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