Posted by raisinb on January 24, 2009, at 0:27:57
In reply to Nicotine increases GAD67 levels in schizophrenia, posted by linkadge on January 18, 2009, at 20:07:28
Interesting thread. I've never read anything about the therapeutic effects of nicotine. I don't smoke often--more when stressed or upset--but I sure do love it.
I'd always assumed (half-remembered from reading something a long time ago) that it's not the nicotine that causes cancer. It's the fillers in most modern filtered cigarettes. Again, probably a rather incorrect memory, but I think that the incidence of lung cancer in 1900--when there were many more smokers--was a fraction of what it is today. The hypothesis of that study was that most people back then smoked pure unfiltered tobacco in pipes or rolled their own, and it's what the companies today add that is so destructive to the cardiovascular system.
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