Posted by Quintal on March 6, 2007, at 4:10:17 [reposted on March 8, 2007, at 8:51:31 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Nicotine as a therapeutic medication, posted by Phillipa on March 4, 2007, at 18:32:37
>Well don't forget it's a cancer causing agent too . If you smoke it's lung especially, chew it it's esophagus, mouth, tongue. Love Phillipa
There's no evidence that nicotine is carcinogenic - it's the other chemicals in tobacco that cause cancer. Nicotine may play a role by supressing the automatic death of cancer cells though in the presence of carcinogens.
Q
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