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Nabi claims vaccine helps patients stop smoking
November 8th, 2007
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals reported that patients were more likely to refrain from smoking after taking an antismoking vaccine that the company has just finished testing in the second phase of clinical studies.
In addition, smokers who didn’t quit the habit did cut down on their use, the company reported.
Patients who previously smoked a median 20 cigarettes a day but showed a high biological response to the vaccine still cut their median daily count down to 10 cigarettes.
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Quit Smoking Right Now
October 31st, 2007
I can still remember that hot summer day in June of 1971; I was 5 years old, and purchasing my first pack of cigarettes for my father. Each day, straight up noon, my dad would come pulling up in his Ford Torino, and that was my cue, I’d run the two blocks to McCartey’s Market, a small neighborhood grocery store on the corner of 13th and Tindall Ave in Trenton, Missouri, and pick up a pack of Sir Walter Raleigh cigarettes.
On this particular June lunch hour, that I believe to have been my very first cigarette purchasing adventure, I leaned over the only checkout counter in the store and timidly said, “I need a pack of Sir Walter Raleigh’s please”, and the lady’s reply still haunts me some 36 years later. “Oh how cute, honey are you gonna smoke these, or are they for your Daddy?”She asked. “They’re my Daddy’s” I chirped back. “Well I’ll bet when you get a little older, you’ll smoke the same kind, won’t you?”
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Is Tobacco Really Bad?
October 29th, 2007
Smoking cigarettes releases over 4000 chemicals. These chemicals are released one place…inside you! Contained in the smoke that is released is tar. Tar is released in you and other people. Tar is what remains of the smoke when the nicotine and water have been removed. Tar contains many carcinogens that are known to cause cancer. This tar and other toxins like carbon monoxide damage your health by causing cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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