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DANmodetoday at 11:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

You took a left-turn:

Nicotine is on-par with caffeine in isolation.

It’s the rest of the crap in smokes and vapes to be concerned with.

I was surprised to learn nicotine is used by functional doctors to treat CFS-adjacent conditions, and the mechanisms therein.


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jibaltoday at 12:58 PM

> You took a left-turn

I certainly didn't; I simply quoted a sentence from the article. (I've noticed that some people have difficulty distinguishing between the person who quotes something and the person being quoted ... it might be a Sally-Anne effect.)

> It’s the rest of the crap in smokes and vapes to be concerned with.

Yes, which makes this article even less reliable.

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whimsicalismtoday at 12:48 PM

nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine, although it is definitely way better than the other stuff in tobacco and not a carcinogen.

let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling.

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