Archive for the ‘nicotine’ Category
FTC Discontinues Tar and Nicotine Test
December 6th, 2008
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After 42 years, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ended a test to measure the amount of tar and nicotine in cigarettes.
According to the Associated Press, the FTC decided to discontinue the testing for two reasons: the test itself was flawed, and tobacco companies could use the results to promote one brand of cigarette over […]
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Scripps Florida Scientists Find Blocking a Neuropeptide Receptor Decreases Nicotine Addiction
November 27th, 2008
CiglessBot wrote an interesting post today on
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Findings could point towards more successful smoking cessation efforts. The study was published in an online Early Edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the week of November 24. Scripps Florida is a division of The Scripps Research Institute.
The neuropeptide, hypocretin-1 (Orexin A), may initiate a key signaling cascade, a series […]
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Nicotine Addiction Linked to Studies on Autism
November 22nd, 2008
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American researchers have recently discovered a connection between two proteins in the brain, linking nicotine addiction and autism.
According to a study presented at a Society for Neuroscience meeting, there is a physical and functional association between these two conditions.
The study showed that the neurexin-1 beta proteins, which are a part of the brain’s chemical […]
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Hypnotherapy Makes Quitting Smoking Possible
November 4th, 2008
CiglessBot wrote an interesting post today on
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The Great American Smokeout is scheduled for the third Thursday in November, which motivates me to share thoughts and observations about smoking cessation.
Over the years, I have helped many people to quit smoking using hypnotherapy as a valuable tool.
By the same token, there are people who would not quit, no matter what, the incorrigible or […]
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Obama Forever Hooked on Nicotine?
October 29th, 2008
robbster wrote an interesting post today on
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Could our new president of the United States become a poster child for smoking cessation and the millions of Americans trying to quit?
Now that President Obama is in the White House the eye is one him to see if he will follow through with his promise to the first lady and deal with his nicotine […]
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Nicotine-Based Pesticide May Explain Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
October 20th, 2008
Kabuki wrote an interesting post today on
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The popular TV show, 60 Minutes has profiled the dying bees. The phenomena, called Colony Collapse Disorder, is still a mystery.
Thousands of bees leave the hive never to return leaving behind a box full of honey. No dead bees are ever found.
Much of the research has not materialized because of a lack of funding even […]
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Since 1878 Reports Confirmed Smoking Was a Health Hazard
September 25th, 2008
robbster wrote an interesting post today on
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1878: Eighty-six years before the U.S. surgeon general issues a report confirming the dangers of smoking tobacco, a letter from English physician Charles R. Drysdale condemning its use appears in The Times of London.
Drysdale, the senior physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital in London, had already published a book on this subject titled Tobacco and […]
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