New research is being reported out of the Scripps Research Institute on how nicotine works in the brain of mice. We’ll assume for the sake of argument that this parallels how it works in humans. In the ScienceDaily report we read: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a pathway […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
[Catherine and I write this with the warning to readers that we know just enough about U.S. politics to get at least something wrong. On the other hand, as we know from trying to understand our own country’s politics, being American might not have gotten us much closer to the truth.] As most readers of […]
Elaine Keller forwarded me this posting (at e-cigarette-forum) recounting the experience of someone who made the “mistake” of bringing up harm reduction concepts at a “Tobacco Cessation Summit”. At the first of the three sessions, participants were asked to come back with some new ideas on how to decrease smoking rates. Our writer took the […]
In today’s Huffington Post, there was yet another, and not particularly good, article on that new research report (abstract here) that smoking in the movies causes ex-smokers to want to smoke again. I guess it takes a brain scientist to definitively state that seeing something makes someone who likes or liked to do that same […]
(When we were recently cc’d on this letter by Elaine Keller from CASAA.org, we thought it would make a great guest posting, and so we asked her, and, as you can see, she agreed.) Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University School of Public Health was interviewed on VP Live Sunday, January 16th. It was a […]
(Thanks to CMNissen for alerting me to this article.) In the most recent issue of Chemical Research in Toxicology, there is a new article with the daunting title of Immediate Consequences of Cigarette Smoking: Rapid Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Diol Epoxides (abstract here). To summarize, 12 subjects each smoked a cigarette laced with a […]
While we are putting the finishing touches on a discussion of the press release out of Star Scientific on their reduced nitrosamine smokeless product, here’s some of the more entertaining (and exasperating) developments in the world of smoking. First of all, out of Spain, two stories. The first out of Time Magazine reports on the […]
