Multi-billion dollar cessation business and no one, before now, bothered to question the long standing premise? Let's hear it for science and commerce.

His laboratory, for example, is working on a mist inhaler to deliver nicotine without any combustion.

Hello.... there already is one.  Actually many brands.... it's called an electronic cig.  I bought my husband the sample pack from Blu after many days of researching what it might do vs an actual smoke.   The FDA has banned the continued entry of this product into the US... not because it's bad for us, but because the tobacco companies don't want the competition.

The tests done in Australia show just one chemical other than nicotine... and that chemical is approved by the FDA to be used as an additive in foods.  The only waste product... water vapor.

He now can puff at home and at school without exposing others to toxins.

The FDA should do their own tests if they are dubious about the product and then allow it to be sold.

I watched my beloved father die ravished by cancer from smoking.

All I know, is that I stopped smoking after a 27 year, pack a day habit cold Turkey. If I can do it, anyone can...I wish I knew how disgusting, smelly and revolting smoking actual was, or I'd have stopped sooner. I can't even stand to be around those that smoke any longer, and if I have my way, I never will...

Ahhhh! So this explains what's wrong with Obama ... he's got nicotine on the brain.

Chantix Rocks !!!

READ.....the information about its side effects, tho'....they do present some problems, especially the weird / lucid dreams. I kind of enjoyed those, 'cuz they were almost as intense as hallucinations.................

I found my temper growing short, which is not good due to my bad attitude about the course the world is on anyway. So noticing that I really had no craving for my stogies after four weeks of pills, I asked my doctor if I could drop the pills and go for broke................he said whatever floats your boat.

That was September 2009, and I have watched those damn things skyrocket from $2.60 for a box of four 8" x 5/8 cigars, to $6.67 for that same box................

Thank God for Chantix.............I have salted away over $300.00 "mad money" since quit day !! and that amount continues to grow.......which will be seed money for my retirement activities.

Hey, Packratking I agree 100% love the dreams actually learned how to go back to the dream if I woke up. stop smoking, stopped the chantix, miss the dreams.

Tracy, you just have to pull on the heart strings long enough. Talk to him about how you'll feel when he dies and what he'll miss. you, your siblings, the future. thats why I quit because my kids did not stop for a minute and I love them more than myself. remind him of that. Any good man cannot refuse his children the love they deserve. sure hope you stayed on the page long enough to see this post

Is anyone here going to argue in favor of smoking?  Is anyone here going to argue that smoking doesn't cause cancer or any of the other related complications?  If not, then hopefully we all agree that quitting is the healthier and smarter choice.  That said, I hope that any of you who smoke can find the answer to quitting.  I agree that everyone is different.  I agree that some of the methods of quitting have side effects.  Quitting is still the answer.  You've got to quit.  Finally, I also strongly believe that when you do decide to quit you better want to.  If you're trying to quit for any other reason you will fail.  Wanting to quit makes quitting so easy.  Be mature about this.  Realize that the long term benefits of quitting are better than the short term benefits of smoking.  It's a fact that you will feel better after quitting.  I wish I could promise you this but it won't matter.  Just educate yourself, make the mature responsible choice and want to quit.  Until then you're just a slave.  Free your mind and save a ton of money too.  Then use that money to buy some weed.  LOL

A cigarette is to nicotine what a syringe is to heroin and a glass is to alcohol. Simply a delivery system for one of the most damaging and addictive substances on the planet. If you want uncontroverted proof how special interest groups control this country, just ask yourself why tobacco and alcohol are legal and marijuana is not. Only one of those three substances has shown to have relatively benign effects, is non-addictive in virtually all cases (absent great abuse) and has potential health benefits, while the other two are highly toxic, socially deleterious and seriously addictive in nature. And only oneof the three is an illegal, controlled substance. Guess which?

What the study doesn't mention is that anyone who actually takes up smoking doesn't have a brain to begin with...so no harm, no foul.

The scientist working for the tobacco companies used the same information for probably 50 years to make cigarettes more and more addicting and as it goes for corporate employees finished their careers and retired. Just like the AIG, Goldman-Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc employees who took down the world in their greed. Then the Nicorete companies mass produce their packages of product for pennies but Marketing priced them the same as a pack of cigarettes to maximize their profits, same as the tobacco companies. This put off millions who wanted to quit. The states that shared in the settlement lawsuits mostly spent their blood money on funding anything but smoking cessation or for health care of the victims. Now since the big companies have cheated the American growers from federal subsidies they are buying leaf from South America where labor is cheaper. The FDA said it is not their responsibility to test for pesticides. And the next generation is experimenting with the flavored oral tobacco's, snuff and then cigarettes all over again. The only thing left to do is ban the product from US Stores.

           I'm flying home for my Mom's funeral tomorrow morning. She is not dead at the moment but should be within 24 hours. She smoked 2 packs a day for 50 years. Started as a teen and quit about 10 years ago. Unfortunately the damage was done and her body was too old to rejuvenate itself. She's been battleing cancer and a host of other ailments all during "retirement". My Dad spent a fortune. She has not eaten in 6 days and takes water by an eye dropper. When conscious you can put your ear to her mouth and all you will hear is "help me". We have a hospice nurse and she is recieving the best care. She is on Morphine and has been given anxiety medicine.  She is a born again, Jesus loving Christian. Her place is in heaven but at the moment she is still afraid to let go. Fear of the unknown.

Hey H.... I'll believe your Superman theory okay.  I have an ego too.  I used to always use George Burns as a prime example as to why I was not scared to smoke.  Like you I quit too.  If you're correct then admit that you're a minority at least.  Most people get cancer or most people get heart disease or most people get emphysema (horrible death by the way) or any of the other related diseases other than cancer.  Smoking has at least assisted in the death of thousands of people every year.  Just look at a picture of a smokers lungs.  Smokers don't need a defense H.  They need help but only if they want it.  I'll stop here.  I know I sound really preachy.  Sorry about that. G.

My family is very lucky. My grandmother died when she was 92 after smoking for about 50 years. My aunt died after about 70 years of smoking at age 90. My mother is still alive at 94; her trick was to quit smoking in 1964. My grandmother and my mother both had nicotine damage to the capillaries of their brains and eyes, however, that caused an Alzheimer's-like condition, slowly destroying their memories, ability to speak, and also ability to see and hear. My aunt died of lung cancer. Even though these ladies in my family were blessed with old age, they suffered. If you think that nicotine is not a problem, visit an ex-smoker in a nursing home who falls asleep with half-chewed food drooling out of their mouth, who once could recall what every person had ever worn to a party at her house, or visit a hospice and watch a vibrant wonderful lady not able to swallow a drop of water, or visit a woman who never received a hand-out through the Great Depression, but couldn't recognize her own family, and couldn't find her way home, and couldn't see because the nicotine had destroyed her eyes. Even at their great age, these ladies were and are poster children for not smoking, and silent witnesses to the criminal murder of so many millions of Americans by the tobacco industry. I cannot understand why the case against the "tobacco industry" is a civil case; it is criminal, and the statute of limitations will never end.

the more you estimulating your ''cortex in producing serotonin, endorfin ,and others chemicals substance " allways wil have the ''EFECTS'' of having the plesure of the sensation,the give you the ''KICKS'' but few people want say that the carriers of the substance inside the brain are BENZENE RINGS WICH ARE 100% CARCINOGENICS...that is the key points >>no carriers no plesure ..=no smoking ....no tobacco industries , less people with lung cancer ... the rest is just bologne and marqueting .period