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Español These days FDA can regulate macaroni, not cigarettes, but maybe something is about to change
Imagine if a new, consumable product containing arsenic, formaldehyde and ammonia was introduced into the market, but federal law wouldn't let the government do anything about it. Such a product already exists – cigarettes. And under current law, the federal government cannot take action to reduce or eliminate the dangerous chemicals additives in cigarettes.
According to the American press, about 85% of US adults surveyed in August 1996 favored the Food and Drug Administration policy on tobacco, and roughly the same percentage said Congress should support the FDA ruling. What the remaining 15% had to say is not clear, as certainly they are not lovers of chemical additives. Read more »
Germany had the world's strongest anti-smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, during the Nazi period. Hitler, who was a chain-smoker, was expelled from school at age eight after being caught smoking. He gave up smoking when he was 35 years old and dreamed of making all Germans quit, too.
At the beginning of 2001 some Third World countries and the European Union took legal action in the United States to try to get back billions of dollars in tax revenue they had lost on cigarettes smuggled in by Big Tobacco, a group made up mostly of American companies.
In the late 1700s, physician Edward Jenner injected a young boy with cowpox to test his hypothesis that those who were infected with that disease never contracted the vastly more serious smallpox. A few weeks later, Jenner gave the boy a dose of smallpox. Fortunately for the boy, it worked, and Jenner is known as a hero and a pioneer in vaccination.
This new drug works by stimulating the production of antibodies in the blood. The antibodies stop nicotine from entering the brain and producing the addictive sensation craved by smokers. The vaccine approach has the potential to dramatically alter the way we will treat smoking addiction in the future. This medical product has been fully effective on 50% of the 341 heavy smokers who took part in the study conducted by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Cytos Biotechnology, that is aiming to get it on the market by 2010.
Last July, the Marlboro cigarettes of the Yesmoke site began migrating to Cuba, where this top American brand is omnipresent, as it is everywhere in the world.
