Month: September 2022

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

"BENEFICIAL ADDITIVES". "Other factors were thought of .... to ascribe the effect to an additive that is already naturally occurring in tobacco, and then to possibly manipulate that additive: a) dental caries [tooth decay], b) reduction in constipation, c) heart rate regulation, d) effects in colds (i.e., mentholated brands), [and] e) anxiety reduction." https://lnkd.in/dazJ8n2 View in LinkedIn

PHEROMONE TOBACCO ADDITIVES. "Isovaleric acid is a component of the pheromones present in the vaginal secretions responsible in the female rhesus monkey for stimulating sexual behavior in the male ... major components of the subauricular gland secretion of the male pronghorn (antelope); its odor produces a strong response from the male." https://lnkd.in/dCpHNBj View in LinkedIn