Category: Uncategorized

BIG TOBACCO VS BIG PHARMA FOR MARIJUANA. "It’s no stretch to imagine, then, that the two industries best positioned to develop pot-based products—tobacco and pharmaceuticals—are also drafting playbooks to determine how they might capitalize on what CNBC.com estimates to be a $40-billion-a-year market." https://lnkd.in/deVddXw View in LinkedIn

PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS OF CIGARETTES have definitely been closely evaluated by Big Tobacco, beyond nicotine, in confidential memoranda retrieved in lawsuits. Termed "beneficial additives", these companies have gone to great lengths to avoid FDA regulation, or any regulation, and consequently, have become experts at botanical extracts. View in LinkedIn

THE TOBACCO GATEWAY. "Nicotine use is a gateway to the use of marijuana and cocaine ... In 2012, among U.S. adults 18 to 34 years of age who had ever used cocaine, 87.9% had smoked cigarettes before using cocaine, 5.7% began using cigarettes and cocaine at the same time, 3.5% used cocaine first, and 2.9% had never smoked cigarettes." http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1405092 View in LinkedIn

"THEOBROMINE is found in cocoa beans ... and chocolate, both of which are used as additives in tobacco. Theobromine is a bronchodilator and has been used in the treatment of asthma ... may contribute to the absorption of nicotine in connection with smoking ... up to 3% of the weight of cigarettes is cocoa extract." https://lnkd.in/d7p_eEM View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO USE CURVE IN THE US rose dramatically and fell dramatically. To replace the lost revenues, tobacco companies expanded overseas, where regulation was soft or non-existent. They also looked at new niches in the West, including marijuana, and ultimately hit on smokeless tobacco, and flavored tobacco. https://lnkd.in/dSDshZz View in LinkedIn

RISE AND FALL OF WESTERN ADDICTION PROFITS. "After Surgeon General Terry’s announcement (~1960), cigarette use suddenly began to decline ... it has continued to decline annually ever since. Both the rise and fall of the cigarette were so dramatic that Harvard historian Allan Brandt dubbed the 1900s “The Cigarette Century.” https://lnkd.in/dSDshZz View in LinkedIn

WWI WAS THE START OF US TOBACCO ADDICTION. "But in the trenches of Europe, soldiers did not have time to pack a pipe or savor a slow-burning cigar. Cigarettes were included in doughboys’ rations as they shipped off to Europe. Soldiers came home addicted to what Henry Ford called “the little white slaver.” https://lnkd.in/dSDshZz View in LinkedIn

RECENT NICTOTINE ADDICTION. "During the first six decades of the 20th century, smoking had grown from a casual pastime to a national addiction. In 1900, the average American adult smoked just 54 manufactured cigarettes each year ... by 1963, the average American was smoking 4,345 manufactured cigarettes per year." https://lnkd.in/dSDshZz View in LinkedIn

NUTRACEUTICAL STRATEGY. "Many of these suggestions imply long range programs with questionable payoff if the benefit cannot be advertised. Advertising the appetite suppressant characteristic of cigarettes as a benefit or the relief of colds with menthol cigarettes presents another touchy situation and potential FDA interference." https://lnkd.in/dcxf3iK View in LinkedIn

CIGARETTES FOR DRUG DELIVERY. "Although cigarette filler is a relatively poor delivery device, tipping paper can be coated and the agents may be delivered orally." https://lnkd.in/dcxf3iK View in LinkedIn