Comments on: Snus news & other tobacco products http://oralcancernews.org/wp/snus-news-other-tobacco-products-2/ The Oral Cancer Foundation News Archive Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:13:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hilllaguna http://oralcancernews.org/wp/snus-news-other-tobacco-products-2/comment-page-1/#comment-467 hilllaguna Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:53:21 +0000 http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=1225#comment-467 Negating that nicotine replacement therapies are part of the solution only leaves one possible choice for smokers, and that is complete abstinence, and for those that wish to help them quit the deadly habit, nothing to talk about but prohibition. Prohibition has never worked in anything. Not in alcohol, not in recreational drug use, not in sexual practices. What people need are reasonable alternatives to the carcinogens in tobacco products that allow them to step down from their addiction. NRT is exactly that. The question now becomes what is the best mechanism to help them use that tool to get off the habit all together. I do not believe in alternative tobacco products, but new electronic cigs may be a pathway, (once we are sure what the content of the cartridges is, and how consistent the quality control of them is) and certainly lozenges, and existing NRT's are part of a controlled equation. But I see no reason that tobacco has to, or should be, a delivery vehicle for NRT's. Negating that nicotine replacement therapies are part of the solution only leaves one possible choice for smokers, and that is complete abstinence, and for those that wish to help them quit the deadly habit, nothing to talk about but prohibition. Prohibition has never worked in anything. Not in alcohol, not in recreational drug use, not in sexual practices. What people need are reasonable alternatives to the carcinogens in tobacco products that allow them to step down from their addiction. NRT is exactly that. The question now becomes what is the best mechanism to help them use that tool to get off the habit all together. I do not believe in alternative tobacco products, but new electronic cigs may be a pathway, (once we are sure what the content of the cartridges is, and how consistent the quality control of them is) and certainly lozenges, and existing NRT’s are part of a controlled equation. But I see no reason that tobacco has to, or should be, a delivery vehicle for NRT’s.

]]> By: jae_cho08 http://oralcancernews.org/wp/snus-news-other-tobacco-products-2/comment-page-1/#comment-290 jae_cho08 Fri, 15 May 2009 18:14:05 +0000 http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=1225#comment-290 Switching to alternative nicotine products is not the solution to prevention of oral cancer. Dentist Richmond Hill Switching to alternative nicotine products is not the solution to prevention of oral cancer.

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