October 15, 1937
The FDA determined that "due to substantially lower amounts of harmful constituents than cigarettes and most smokeless tobacco products, such as moist snuff and snus, the authorized products pose lower risk of cancer and other serious health conditions than such products." Meghan Morean, a research scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, said, "It's good that we're moving towards a harm reduction approach
Smoking sends a massive, rapid-fire hit of nicotine straight to the brain, which is what creates that powerful, hard-to-break reward cycle
When you inhale cigarette smoke, your lungs are punished with tar and many gases, including carbon monoxide
More specifically, 32% of participants were moderately dependent (score 56), 28% were mildly dependent (score 34), 28% were non-dependent (score 02), and 12% were highly dependent (score 7)
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