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To: goldworldnet who wrote (713059)	11/14/2005 2:22:29 PM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 769670

Cigarette companies should be required to reduce the nicotine content of cigarettes by 10% each year. In 10 years pre-rolled cigarettes would be nicotine free. IMO the nicotine is not that addictive. At least chewing nicorette doesn't seem to help that much. So I doubt getting rid of nicotine would help, might hurt depending on what chemicals are used to get rid of the nicotine.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (713059)	11/14/2005 2:26:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: Cigarette companies should be required to reduce the nicotine content of cigarettes by 10% each year. Well... that would go agin my Libertarian sensibilities (& would most likely spawn a black market in 'home grown', unaltered tobacco.) Still --- perhaps it would be possible to make manufacturers sell only a natural product (i.e., unaltered by the possibly hundreds of chemical additives that they commonly add to their products). A particularly common additive is ammonia --- which serves a role much like treating cocaine with bases to product 'crack' does --- it SIGNIFICANTLY boosts the amount of nicotine that goes quickly into the bloodstream, increasing the immediate 'boost' that smokers feel... and adding to the addictive potential of their product.