Winnipeg woman won't quit E-cigarette sales

[Brewlady]

CBC News - Manitoba - Winnipeg woman won't quit E-cigarette sales

The caption under the picture is interesting, but they don't mention the test results. Must not bolster the government's position.

 

[kristin]

I posted a comment replying to the guy who said nicotine is bad for you:

JWayneB wrote:
Nicotine is a powerful drug that re-wires your brain to change the way you perceive pleasure. Nicotine is also a deadly poison (the amount that would be fatal to a fully grown human is quite small), and has other physiological effects that are still being studied - one of them being the apparent effect of causing your body to grow new blood vessels, adding to the workload on your heart.

The way I see it, its just another way to keep people chained to nicotine. If this is approved for use, then big tobacco will start making it.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/s...-electronic.html#socialcomments#ixzz13aevTz4T

@JWayneB
Caffeine is a powerful, addictive, psychoactive drug that constricts brain blood vessels and stimulates the cardiovascular and nervous systems. It also increases dopamine levels, which affects the brain's pleasure center. Caffeine has also been linked to accelerated bone loss, increased cortisol leading to increased stress effects and risks of weight gain, heart disease and diabetes linked to stress. It's found in coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks, chocolate, headache medicine and diet supplements. Approximate 79% of consumers use this psychoactive drug on a daily basis. Caffeine has the same withdrawl effects as nicotine.

So, how is nicotine any worse? No one has any problem with caffeine, but nicotine isn't any more of a health risk. Nicotine is only a risk if you get it by SMOKING. Using an e-cigarette, patch, gum, lozenge or smokeless tobacco is no worse for you than sucking down those Starbuck's Ventis or 5 minute Energy drinks every day. Anyone who believes differently doesn't know the facts or is just fooling themselves.

 

[Crumpet]

I posted a comment replying to the guy who said nicotine is bad for you:

Go ahead Kristin! Excellent response. I just get soooo sick of people demonizing nicotine simply because they cannot disassociate it from tobacco cigarettes. It's as if in their minds nicotine=tobacco. I enjoy telling them that nicotine is also in potatoes and tomatoes and, like you, informing them of its similarities to caffeine (which is almost universally worshipped as a godsend). It's just the uglier side of human nature to be forgiving of your own shortcomings while being ruthlessly opposed to other peoples'.

Regardless, this alarmist culture, along with its fetishization of death and borderline obsession with avoiding any little thing that might possibly have the potential to do any kind of damage whatsoever, is really wearing thin with me. Look people: no matter what you do, you will die. You cannot avoid it and I don't intend to spend what time I do have on this earth obsessing about what the end will be like.

 

[Sdh]

One knows that nicotine increases endorphins...thus these small proteins are our bodies natural pain killers. I was reading today about a study related to nicotine and pain killing its pain killing abilities post surgery.