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alphacyberranger to World [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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alphacyberranger to World [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
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    Thanks, troll, for mixing valid points with blatant bullshit.

    Also caffeine is neurotoxin.

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      https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

      https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100713144920.htm

      I mean I can back up my claims. This isn’t rocket science. Most kids in the smoking years (50-00s) started smoking to look cool and older…hell there are even studies that show most people hate it at first.

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        https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

        I didn’t compare harm, I was saying that caffeine is very useful neurotoxin. Meanwhile nicotine is completely useless at best.

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          https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-independent-expert-e-cigarettes-evidence-review

          there is much public misunderstanding about nicotine (less than 10% of adults understand that most of the harms to health from smoking are not caused by nicotine)

          https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

          Tobacco contains nicotine along with many other chemicals, but nicotine by itself is fairly harmless.

          https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/nicotine-the-wonder-drug

          Studies by Quik and others involving rats, mice and nonhuman primates have since found similar effects. In short, by driving dopamine, nicotine appeared to ease the tremors and tics caused by Parkinson’s, and even the movement disorder induced by the major Parkinson’s drug.

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078469/

          Nicotine for Alzheimer’s disease

          Want me to go on?

          Nicotine isn’t the harmful drug the anti-tobacco groups have you believing.

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