Big Time OT
Brian,
Let me first say that I enjoy and look forward to your posting regarding AMAT and semi equip stocks. Now, I feel I have to de-lurk and put in my two cents worth as a professional toxicologist, you really do not know what you are talking about. To state that consuming about 20 ng of benzo[a]pyrene per cig, even when done in moderation, is not a causal factor in over 100,000 totally preventable cancer deaths is sheer idiocy. This only demonstrates that you, like millions of others, have been duped by tobacco companies that their product is much safer than it really is.
That said, I realize that the consumption of tobacco is a legal activity that, at least at first, is a choice knowingly made by the individual involved. Just do not uncritically swallow the propaganda sponsored by companies that have a huge interest in keeping their addicted customers puffing away.
For further more or less unbiased information that is fairly concise, factual yet not overly technical, I would refer you to the chapter on nicotine in A Primer of Drug Action by Robert Julian, available in most big bookstores and university libraries.
I apologize in advance for my harsh sounding criticism, and will quietly go back to lurking and consuming my own favorite drugs, caffeine and ethyl alcohol. I just hope that my voluntary consumption of fatty foods does not prematurely end my enjoyment of the posts here on this thread. |
