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Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug

Posted by kdawson on from the if-it-don't-kill-you-first dept.

Fantastic Lad sends us to Wired for a story on the upside of nicotine. Researchers are developing drugs based on nicotine that may prove beneficial for brains, bowels, blood vessels and immune systems. "Nicotine acts on the acetylcholine receptors in the brain, stimulating and regulating the release of a slew of brain chemicals, including seratonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. Now drugs derived from nicotine and the research on nicotine receptors are in clinical trials for everything from helping to heal wounds, to depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, anger management and anxiety." A separate story talks about nicotine warding off Parkinson's disease.

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  1. Oh great by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in.

    Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!

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    1. Re:Oh great by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!

      I'm surprised they are letting lab beagles post on slashdot, is it the result of some animal rights campaign?

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    2. Re:Oh great by duguk · · Score: 2, Funny

      I gave up on Sunday and NOW this comes up? C'mon guys, be fair! Its hard enough as it is!

    3. Re:Oh great by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      For all those who bitched about breathing my second hand smoke: You're welcome.

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    4. Re:Oh great by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can spin it positively as much as you like, but you two are still a couple of quitters.

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    5. Re:Oh great by SpacePunk · · Score: 2, Funny

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      Your suppose to cuddle and talk about your feelings.

      (I'm a guy, did I get that right? Was it convincing?)

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  2. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    quit smoking after 15 years. What a bitch. And NOW they say that the nicotine is good?

  3. Re:Suspicious at best. by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Phillip Morris Healthcare

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  4. ...just remember by tygerstripes · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... if you're undertaking clinical trials with these drugs in the UK - don't do it in public enclosed spaces.

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  5. As Dr Orva says.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Here, smoke this, and be sure to get the smoke deep down
    into your lungs"

    It's tobacco, it's one of the healthiest things for your body!

  6. Wait ..... by ajs318 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So fags are good for you now?

    Just make sure that report wasn't signed by anybody named Benson or Hedges!

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    1. Re:Wait ..... by troc · · Score: 4, Funny

      My gay office-mate thoroughly enjoys his daily fags ;)

      (that's a UK-centric joke, sorry)

      Oh and he's giggling over my shoulder now.

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    2. Re:Wait ..... by JargonScott · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm surprised at your typing prowess given that type of activity. o.O

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  7. Re:Suspicious at best. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Depends on who I was administering it to...

  8. Re:sweet! by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Funny


    Wait until you hear about the benefits of cocaine and opium!

  9. Daydream by Detritus · · Score: 3, Funny
    Go away! Don't you have work to do?

    Grumble...

    Can't take a smoke break in peace anymore, with all these health nuts trying to get a free lungful of nicotine.

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  10. Re:Suspicious at best. by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course we can trust them! Their ads say so, and trustworthy people don't lie.

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  11. Re:'medicine' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on cartoon camels smoke them. How dangerous could cigarettes be?

  12. Re:Nicotine and bowels by neonmonk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent insightful!

    I just love to have an indepth of understanding of fellow Slashdotters morning rituals.

  13. Re:Suspicious at best. by broggyr · · Score: 2, Funny
    **but you wouldn't administer them by putting them on the tip of a knitting needle and jamming it into your eyeball**


    Thanks - I nearly gave my keyboard a coffee shower; truly made me LOL. Good show!

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  14. I second by jfekendall · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the benefits of nicotine when it comes to ADD. I can actually concentrate now. The only downside is the yellowed teeth thing. I suppose yellow is the new white.

  15. Re:Suspicious at best. by gardyloo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks - I nearly gave my keyboard a coffee shower; truly made me LOL. Good show! Recent research has shown that computer parts truly appreciate coffee showers, as they provide new pathways for carrier electrons. To REALLY stimulate your electronics, though, give them coffee enemas!
  16. Re:Suspicious at best. by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny

    antibiotics are good medicine but you wouldn't administer them by putting them on the tip of a knitting needle and jamming it into your eyeball.
    Arrrr, why'dya think I is wearing them eyepatch, laddy??
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  17. Re:Nicotine and bowels by Bourbon+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    I quit smoking about a year ago, and I've found that there is one bad thing about quitting (at least for me). I used to always get up, have a smoke, and within minutes I would need to go poop. Since I quit smoking, my pooping schedule is all messed up. When your bowels perform like clockwork for decades, to have that schedule go awry is truly a shitty thing.

  18. Re:Suspicious at best. by B3ryllium · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Jack Bauer might disagree with you.

  19. New nicotine drugs, for a healthy you.... by bodland · · Score: 5, Funny

    Packaged in a 20 dose per container. New fashionable "inhaler" delivery system. Regular, 100 and 120 mg sizes. To take the new drugs you light the end of the inhaler tube and inhale the refreshing vapor. The dose burns with a pleasing aroma and relaxing patterns of vapor. 20 doses, take as needed 20 times per day or more. Packed in soft of hard pack box and cartons. Available at most gas stations. Menthol and other flavors available. NOW over the counter!

    Welcome to a healthy new you.

  20. obligatory Gentoo joke by javilon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, I understand you, its like having finished recompiling Gentoo the day they have a new release.

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  21. Re:Suspicious at best. by beckerist · · Score: 4, Funny

    *sigh* Go calm down, have yourself a cigarette...

  22. Re:better than SSRI? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Funny

    I stopped seeing him. I was looking into 'legal' highs for depression, such as St. John's Wort and

    Since I also had problems concentrating,
    That's gold! Seriously, you just can't write comedy like that intentionally.
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  23. Re:Suspicious at best. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now drugs derived from nicotine and the research on nicotine receptors are in clinical trials for everything from helping to heal wounds, to depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, anger management and anxiety."
    Grampa used to get angry and swear a lot when he runs out of his cigarets ... however, he died from stroke - that one is not on the list.
  24. Re:better than SSRI? by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    I couldn't remember the word 'melatonin' and I was going to look it up, and then I forgot...

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  25. Re:Suspicious at best. by itlurksbeneath · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Mansons were a family too... They don't have many commercials, though.

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  26. Re:Not Sure Why... by MightyMait · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually "all the bad effects of smoking come mostly from the smoke + chronic use" isn't really true... nicotine is very toxic.

    So, then, nicotine should fit in just great with all the *other* toxic pharmaceuticals!!

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