Trouble is that NRT has a 90% plus failure rate because the drug is being delivered very slowly to the brain (orally or through the skin) and from the users point of view lacks the pleasure of inhaling
JK Tabak The Golden Standard in Amber Leaf Tobacco
In women, smoking has been linked with: increased difficulty getting pregnant early birth, stillbirth low birthweight sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) ectopic pregnancy cleft lips In addition to all the health effects listed above, smoking cigarettes can make bones weaker, cause tooth loss and other gum and tooth diseases, increase a persons risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration, causes type 2 diabetes, makes the immune system weaker, and can cause arthritis
A distant thrum in my ears pressured inward and compressed my brain as if imprisoning and prodding it, and my impression was that some malignity had attached itself to the tobacco and now sought to read my thoughts and turn them to its own use
James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake (1994)
