http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/nicotine-health-benefits.htm Very interesting
‘Scinece has finally found a reliable delivery system for nicotine- the patch’ Guess they don’t know about snuff! The poor guys, don’t know what they are missing.
The patch is made from lobelia ,I could be wrong
science seems to favor the pharmaceutical bloc. Common sense & science do not always go hand in hand, especially if “Big Pharm” is funding the research.
I’ve done a number of links on the subject but the most interesting thing I have extrapolated is the lessening of alzheimers risk. According to the NIH the number of, in america, alzheimer cases in america will triple by 2040 (of course if you’re not american…). They attribute this to the aging of the baby boomer population. I figure 90% of the baby boomers will be dead by then or wish they were. If one were to graph decrease (both current and projected) in cigarette smoking one would find and inverse relationship to alzheimers increase. But the NIH won’t admit this.
The Effects of Tobacco Smoke and Nicotine on Cognition and the Brain http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11065-007-9035-9
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/12/4/372.short Some practical points on harm reduction: What to tell your lawmaker and what to tell your brother about Swedish Snus. Personally, I love Snus, it’s second to snuff for me. When the oral fixation comes about it’s the pipe and sometimes a cigar. Just Say NO, to American cigs! And everything in moderation, depending on what your ideal of moderation is. /
Medicinal Tobacco ? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12549429 [Old and new prescriptions for infectious diseases and the newest recipes for biomedical products in plants].
Not sure if a link to this article has been placed elsewhere on the forum, but just in case its not - https://selfhacked.com/2016/03/31/28-proven-health-benefits-nicotine-4-potential-risks/
Found this an interesting read though in the dosing section, there is no mention of snuff in particular