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HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DOCTOR: NICORETTES AND NICOTINE
Nicorettes
Nicotine chewing gum turned doctors into pushers of nicotine. Unwittingly tie medical profession became prescribers of public health enemy number one. Fortunately doctors were let off the hook when Nicorettes became available over the counter at chemist shops. Now pharmacists must take responsibility for providing noxious substances to the people they have a duty to protect.
Home Remedies
Nicotine chewing gum is designed to replace cigarettes as an addict’s supply of nicotine. Whereas the risks of cardiovascular disease are not lessened; the toxic burden of cigarette smoke on the lungs is reduced. It was always immoral for doctors to become involved in the prescription of nicotine, as it still is for pharmacists. Doctors and pharmacists should not be responsible for a patients continuing nicotine habit. Prescribing nicotine was never going to jet smokers to give up cigarettes. People give up cigarettes when they are motivated to do so. If they are motivated, the) don\'t need nicotine substitutes. They just stop smoking.
Nicotine
Nicotine has no therapeutic effects that counterbalance the production of lung cancer, heart disease, bronchitis and emphysema. Nicotine is as carcinogenic as radon gas and benzene.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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