@ossobuco,
Quote:Many studies including some sponsored by the federal government, have shown that nicotine may in fact delay the onset and effects of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
Furthermore, it may also improve symptoms of attention deficit disorder and also Tourettes syndrome.
Nicotine has also been found to influence mood, mental alertness, and addiction.
Scientists have discovered that nicotine acts on nerve cells to enhance the release of neurotransmitters, chemicals that relay messages within the brain and nicotine increases a person's ability to focus and pay attention.
Nicotine is also known to switch on receptors on the surface of cells in certain parts of the brain, causing these neurons to release the Neuro-transmitter dopamine, a chemical that is responsible for feelings of pleasure.
Why don’t we take the potential benefits of Nicotine seriously?
Because socialist control freaks want all those benefits taken away so that we are easier to manipulate.
I reckon I can have a good guess at who smokes and who doesn't on here.
And think of the money the medical profession can make out of non-smokers. It's mind boggling. Smoking related illnesses, usually caused by abuse, kill young and kill quick. And, as Rider Haggard said --"there's plenty more where they came from."
What use is that to the medical profession when compared to 30 years of dotage and senility which, in a world of private health care, redirects the contents of wills.
Once tobacco advertising was banned media could get nothing out of it. Hence its opposition to smoking.
