Yahoo-E cigarettes, could they really save millions of lives
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The "research" that proves nicotine is "highly addictive" is that the U.S. Surgeon General said so. That's an opinion, not an experiment. He partly based this opinion on the fact that people addicted to ...... or ....... reported that it was more difficult to stop smoking than it was to stop using their illicit drug. But does being more difficult to quit after years of use tell us anything about how likely a substance is to capture new users? As it turns out, the delivery method is a huge factor. Smoking turns out to be "highly addictive", and there are two possible explanations for that. 1) tobacco contains chemicals in addition to nicotine that help to improve mood. 2) Smoking delivers nicotine to the bloodstream (and hence the brain) more quickly than any other delivery method. Kids who have experimented with nicotine delivered via gum and lozenges have not become hooked, which points toward the speed of delivery, rather than the nature of the substance, being a bigger factor in addiction. Vansickel, et al. determined that because e-cigarettes deliver nicotine much more slowly than smoking, they are not likely to be highly addictive.
The "research" that proves nicotine is "highly addictive" is that the U.S. Surgeon General said so. That's an opinion, not an experiment. He partly based this opinion on the fact that people addicted to ...... or ....... reported that it was more difficult to stop smoking than it was to stop using their illicit drug. But does being more difficult to quit after years of use tell us anything about how likely a substance is to capture new users? As it turns out, the delivery method is a huge factor. Smoking turns out to be "highly addictive", and there are two possible explanations for that. 1) tobacco contains chemicals in addition to nicotine that help to improve mood. 2) Smoking delivers nicotine to the bloodstream (and hence the brain) more quickly than any other delivery method. Kids who have experimented with nicotine delivered via gum and lozenges have not become hooked, which points toward the speed of delivery, rather than the nature of the substance, being a bigger factor in addiction. Vansickel, et al. determined that because e-cigarettes deliver nicotine much more slowly than smoking, they are not likely to be highly addictive.
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