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Accepting premature deaths from smoking

Correspondence to:
W A Farone PhD
Applied Power Concepts, Inc., 411 East Julianna Street, Anaheim, CA, 92801, USA; farone@appliedpowerconcepts.com

Keywords: tobacco specific nitrosamines

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If one analyses the suggested means of solving the problem of premature death and disease caused by smoking, the strategies break down into four broad groups. Listed in the order in which I perceive these to have the highest probability of resulting in the most reduction in death to the least these are:

1. Smoking cessation
   
2. Replacement of the pharmacologic (pleasurable) sensations of nicotine in cigarette products with non-cigarette products that can be viewed as providing either medicinal nicotine or analogue chemicals with similar function
   
3. Reduction in toxic components of cigarette smoke immediately to levels that are suggested by current science as "acceptable" based on existing dose–response data for cumulative lifetime exposure. (This is a central part of the theme of the California Environmental Protection Agency’s requirements—that is, that there are levels of chemicals for which the risk is not more than "background".)
   
4. Partial reductions in some toxic components . . . [Full text of this article]