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PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS.

2014s Life-Saving Resolution:

Get Your Nicotine Without Smoking

New York, Jan. 8, 2014 Walk more. Eat less. Clean out the garage.
Really? Again?
This year, how about making a truly meaningful, life-altering New Years
resolution? If youre one of 44 million American smokers, we have one for you: Try
separating the smoke from your nicotine fix. Doing so will save your life.
Thats because the deadly poisons in a burning cigarette and the spectrum of its
devastating health effects come from the smoke thats created, and not from the
nicotine itself. That fact is the biggest misconception about tobacco smoking.
Understanding this key point, which is highlighted in ACSHs The Effects of Nicotine
on Human Health, is the first major step addicted smokers can take to break free
from the insidiously deadly grip of cigarettes.
For more
information, contact:
ERIK LIEF
Director of
Communications
TEL. 212.362.7044
Ext. 234

This publication clearly demonstrates that it is the smoke the inhaled products
of combustion of a lighted cigarette which causes disease and death, not the
nicotine, says Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science
and Health. All smokers need to know this.

INSIDE NICOTINE ON HUMAN HEATH: THE BOTTOM LINE
n No question, nicotine is absolutely ADDICTIVE. But smokers do not have
to risk their lives to satisfy their craving.
n Smokers light up for their nicotine fix, but the SMOKE is what kills them.
n Nicotine is NOT a carcinogen. And it is not toxic in the amount delivered
by a cigarette.
n Many PHYSICIANS FALSELY BELIEVE that nicotine is the primary
disease-causing agent in cigarette smoking.
n Nicotine can be delivered in many alternative forms: by patch, gum and
E-CIGARETTES, which produces nicotine as a vapor unaccompanied
by the deadly mixture of smoke and toxic chemicals that arises from the
combustion of tobacco.
Take a look at the enclosed pamphlet and learn the facts about nicotine and smoking
Since 1978, ACSH's mission has been to weigh in on the medical and scientific issues of
the day for the purposes of promoting good public health. We also debunk junk science,
and step into the media spotlight when medical scares begin to circulate.