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MASS MEDICATION is not new: think vitamin D milk, and fluorinated water for dental caries. Israel has joined many other countries in banning fluorination. Thus, the idea of using a consumer product like cigarettes to deliver medications for the masses joins a line of other similar attempts. Appetite suppression through cigarettes, for example, was successful. View in LinkedIn

ADDING NATURALLY OCCURING PROMOTORS for sex drive and other desirable effects in tobacco. While thinking and acting like pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies have been exempt from regulation and enjoy a great deal of protection from disclosures. https://lnkd.in/dazJ8n2 View in LinkedIn

MEDICATING THE PUBLIC THROUGH CIGARETTES. "In this Philip Morris document, Beneficial Additive Cigarette, scientists glibly and easily kick around the idea of medicating the general public for dental caries, reducing anxiety, cold symptoms, improving moods, etc. through cigarettes." http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/185684.html View in LinkedIn

PLATFORM FOR ENDOGENOUS DRUGS. "Rather than deliver a physiological effect directly we might incorporate an additive which causes the body to produce its own physiological agent. Thus, we could alleviate pain, increase sex drive, etc., without adding agents to do this but by adding a naturally occurring promoter." The pipe dream of the tobacco industry. https://lnkd.in/dazJ8n2 View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO SCIENTISTS SPECULATED about increasing the sex drives through additives to compensate for the negative effects of tobacco on sexual performance. Imagine if they had been successful? Addiction plus sex would be unstoppable. View in LinkedIn

SMOKING AND SEX. "Six years ago the British Health Department launched a campaign warning that smoking can ruin your sex life, including ads about physical attractiveness - ''If you smoke, you stink'' - and impotence - ''Your penis thinks you should stop smoking''. https://lnkd.in/dzgnQuA View in LinkedIn

COPD AND THE MICROBIOME. "Although culture-independent techniques have shown that the lungs are not sterile, little is known about the lung microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ... the pulmonary microbiome and ... global and micro-anatomic change in these bacterial communities in severe COPD patients." https://lnkd.in/dNRjGkQ View in LinkedIn

SMOKING AND ORAL HEALTH. "Smoking cessation alters the subgingival microbial profile. Following nonsurgical periodontal therapy and smoking cessation, the subgingival microbiome is recolonized by a greater number of health-associated species and there are a significantly lower prevalence and abundance of putative periodontal pathogens." https://lnkd.in/d-RmKFM View in LinkedIn

SMOKING CAUSES GINGIVITIS. "It is established that bacterial consortia within the subgingival microbiome play a critical role in the etiology of chronic periodontitis. Tobacco smoking has been shown to preferentially enrich this microbiome for pathogenic species." https://lnkd.in/d-RmKFM View in LinkedIn

SMOKING AND THE MICROBIOME. A study of the effects of smoking on the oral and lung Microbiome. The surprise is that the mouth flora changes a lot, the lung less; however, methods for lung microbiome investigation, and the invasiveness of these methods, are big hurdles. https://lnkd.in/dqAKqAJ View in LinkedIn