Friday, September 21, 2007

Reducing the addictiveness of cigarettes

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)

Report issued by the Council on Scientific Affairs on how to get rid of nicotine from cigarettes in order to reduce addiction to smoking. Some of the recommendations the council made include: encouraging the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have control over tobacco products, identify tobacco products as a drug delivery mechanism and nicotine as a drug.

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/281

Comment: This article was written in 1998. It's amazing to me that these ideas are still so current.