As an occasional (about once a month, at most) pipe smoker, I’ve been following the FDA’s new Deeming Regulations with some interest. Starting on August 8 the FDA will be permitted to regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes (what they were originally gunning for, IMO), cigars, pipe tobacco, etc. Previously only cigarettes and smokeless tobacco were regulated. The pipe and cigar community is up in arms about this because many non-cigarette tobacco producers are mom-and-pop operations and won't be able to pony up the funds to do rigorous FDA-required testing on their products.
I’ve read a lot of studies and competing thoughts from the anti-smoking camp as well as the much smaller pro-smoking group. A few (biased) pro-smoking websites have implied that because nicotine is oxidized into niacin, smoking might actually deliver a small amount of an essential nutrient. Chemically, is there any truth to that whatsoever?
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