The Nicotine Myth

A short film/animation/documentary about Nicotine submitted to the Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival.

Produced, directed and edited by Carlos Boellinger

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• snus
• what is snus
• stop smoking
• nicotine
• Katrin Zytomierska
• health
• animation
• smoking

[wearetarget]

I'm tempted to use the rest of the interview footage to make a second part... watch this space...

[MisterNickOtine]

@MercenarySlick nicotine and nornicotine react with nitrite produced from microbial fermentation during curing to form class 2B (possibly carcinogenic) nitrosamines, which I think r the "chemicals" you r referring to. These nitrosamines r virtually absent in uncured tobacco. In other words the problem is largely avoidable. Interestingly, uncured green tobacco has also recently been found to contain anticancer cembranoids, which may seriously alter the way we perceive tobacco.

[MisterNickOtine]

@MotoVapenStine more like a foam whiffle bat actually.

[geppegep]

@rothenbj yup, its a scandal to say that it does, its pure propaganda

[strawalker]

As a nicotine addict for well over thirty years I've given up trying to quite nicotine. Snus is the only way I get my fix now for over a year, the results being I breath better, I'm more active and feel healthier and strangely I've lost a lot of weight. Smoking cost me about $10.60 a day whereas snus costs about $1.20 per day.

[bolliyang]

@rothenbj these things create dependency though, don't they?

[rothenbj]

Nicotine's a drug, caffeine's a drug, sugar's a drug, so what? If using snus replaces cigarettes, even if it doesn't replace all cigarettes it's a positive health outcome.

[bolliyang]

Nicotine is still a drug tho, it stills addictive and there is a risk for dual users where they smoke AND use snus as well... saying that, snus seems a bit safer than smoking...

[cigarbabe2]

All you ANTZ people need to give it up on your "made up facts" that nicotine alone causes cancer. There are no facts to substantiate that conclusion.

Sheesh!

C.B.

[rothenbj]

MercenarySlick, you really should read the epidemiology studies on Swedish snus before spouting anti-tobacco rhetoric. There is NO statistical significance between using snus and throat and mouth cancer. You've read too much government propaganda.