Nicotine drug 'may slow dementia'

[Ansel]

BBC article from a few years ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7497037.stm

[EricHill78]

I stopped reading after seeing "Nicotene has toxic effects"

I allways believed Nic by itself is as safe as caffeine.

[lxskllr]

Well, caffeine has toxic effects too. You just don't hear the zealots bitching about it like you do nicotine.

[EricHill78]

Well, caffeine has toxic effects too. You just don't hear the zealots bitching about it like you do nicotine.

Well pretty much everything in life to an extent is toxic.. If you eat alot of carrots to an extreme your skin will show an orange hue for example. Too much water you can actuay get sick. Anything can be toxic.

[BlueSaint]

Well pretty much everything in life to an extent is toxic.. If you eat alot of carrots to an extreme your skin will show an orange hue for example. Too much water you can actuay get sick. Anything can be toxic.

Too much water can even kill.

[Bigblue1]

"Sola dosis facit venenum".

[rickcharles606]

Eggplant and Green tomatoes have nicotine in them, guess we need to alert someone. Next to tobacco, the plant that has the most nicotine is Eggplant...read that yesterday, how weird....now Chad will be smoking eggplant ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke...al.pl?NICOTINE

[visiON]

I stopped reading after seeing "Nicotene has toxic effects"

I allways believed Nic by itself is as safe as caffeine.

Except it has the LD50 of 0.5-1mg/kg of bodyweight.
So 60mg can kill an adult.

[EricHill78]

[jagmanss]

Eggplant and Green tomatoes have nicotine in them, guess we need to alert someone. Next to tobacco, the plant that has the most nicotine is Eggplant...read that yesterday, how weird....now Chad will be smoking eggplant ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke...al.pl?NICOTINE

Think of the Children.... They need to now be protected from Eggplant... I can see it now... An Eggplant ban...

No Eggplant for You!

[rickcharles606]

The funny thing is that many plants contain nicotine, and it's the nightshade family of plants that apparently contain the evil nicotine, lol. Here's a list from that second link I posted

Nicotiana tabacum L. -- Tobacco; 20,000 - 40,000 ppm in Leaf;
Equisetum arvense L. -- Field Horsetail, Horsetail; 0.4 ppm in Plant;
Apium graveolens L. -- Celery; in Plant;
Asclepias syriaca L. -- Milkweed; in Sprout Seedling;
Atropa bella-donna L. -- Belladonna; in Leaf;
Carica papaya L. -- Papaya; in Plant;
Datura stramonium L. -- Jimsonweed; in Plant;
Duboisia myoporoides R. BR. -- Corkwood Tree, Pituri; in Leaf;
Erythroxylum coca var. coca -- Coca; in Leaf;
Huperzia spp -- Cutleaf Clubmoss; in Plant;
Juglans regia L. -- English Walnut; in Leaf;
Lycopodium clavatum L. -- Antler Herb, Clubmoss; in Pollen Or Spore;
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. -- Cowage, Velvetbean; in Seed;
Nicotiana glauca R. GRAH. -- Tree Tobacco; in Leaf;
Nicotiana rustica L. -- Aztec Tobacco; in Leaf;
Solanum tuberosum L. -- Potato; in Plant;
Withania somnifera (L.) DUNAL -- Ashwagandha; in Root;

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