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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: out_of_the_loop who wrote (970)	9/22/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: DanZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5582

Follow up on nicotine gum: I have never been a smoker, but it seems to me that this could be a huge market. In addition to the potential health advantages of chewing nicotine gum over smoking, those who prefer to smoke might use gum in places where smoking isn't allowed. Society is moving more towards a smoke free environment, and this trend plays right into a smoke free, tobacco free, delivery system for nicotine. Smokers might use nicotine gum in airplanes, restaurants, retail stores, workplaces, office buildings, banks, elevators, and other places where smoking isn't permitted. Some smokers might even prefer nicotine gum to puffing on cigarettes, and previous smokers that quit because of health reasons, might use a nicotine gum. How big is the tobacco industry? According to activemedia-guide.com "In the United States, tobacco is approximately a $46 billion a year business." WOW! Do we have any smokers in the audience? What do you think about this idea? Would you use a product that delivers the sensation of smoking through a chewing gum? Maybe they could even make a cigarette flavored gum. lol

To: out_of_the_loop who wrote (970)	9/22/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: Scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

Thee correct way to take Zicam actually does not require you sniffing it. Think of your lower nasal lining as where you want to paint it on and your upper nasal passages (your turbinates - the things actually inside your skull as opposed to the cartilaginous nose that we can see) as OFF LIMITS to Zicam. You are applying a gel but in spray form. The introducer goes in only a fraction of an inch. Do not inhale, simply spray, then clamp your nostrils together. The gel spreads evenly and you should not get the material back into your throat to swallow. It won't hurt you there, but it won't help, either. Thanks, Howard. Yes, I've used it in this manner (and it works!), but it does leave an excess of liquid in the nostrils, which can be disposed of either "forwards" or "backwards". Since I try not to blow it out right away, I end up swallowing some. I didn't know if there were any other places in the respiratory tract where it might be effective, as it "passed through." Scott