Pimping smokes ! ! !

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

I suppose you are right. Nicotine itself does not cause lung cancer, but it is a poison and can kill. But those who chew tobacco have elevated cancer rates as well with no smoke involved. However, I still have a problem with laymen selling pharma type products that have no test results, perhaps no tests at all. You can correct me if Blu has a lab that they have tested their product out for a few years. I understand they are made in China. That alone scares me. The jury is still out on what the effects are of pure nicotine delivered on a daily basis. I have no idea.

I would be pleased to hear your understanding of the benefits of these things, Liz.

I really don't mean this as a piss thread. I am just concerned, really

I understand your concerns. Unfortunately, I haven't got answers. Tobacco, smoked or no, has a number of other chemicals that it diffuses beyond nicotine, though, any number of which may be considered carcinogens. Then again, alcohol is a carcinogen. These days, the air itself is a toxin. The jury is still out on whether I will die from using Tupperware to warm up my lunch, too.

I don't mean to be glib, it's merely that my understanding of the concerns centered on smoking are a direct result of the by-products of the tobacco itself, not the nicotine. I don't know of any studies that have shown that use of nicotine delivery - be it gum, patch, or inhaler (which category Blu would fall into)- has demonstrated that nicotine, in and of itself is hazardous in relatively small doses.

If I drank liquid nicotine in bottles? Yeh, probably an issue.