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'''We step away for a moment from looking at just nicotine, and seek some of the science behind the tobacco plant. Tobacco plants are the | '''We step away for a moment from looking at just nicotine, and seek some of the science behind the tobacco plant. Tobacco plants are the world's primary source of nicotine in the pharmaceutical and vapor technology / alternative nicotine products industries. We'll address the question: Is tobacco a beneficial plant for Public Health?''' | ||
=Vaccines - Studies, Scholarly Comments= | =Vaccines - Studies, Scholarly Comments= | ||
===2020: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.594591/full “Tobacco Is the Chief Medicinal Plant in My Work”: Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine Exemplified by the Work of a Maestro Tabaquero]=== | |||
*Tobacco (especially Nicotiana rustica L.) in this area is described as a potent medicinal plant, used topically or via ingestion to treat a variety of health conditions. The goal of this transdisciplinary field study was to investigate clinical applications of the tobacco plant as per Amazonian medicine exemplified in the practice of a reputed Maestro Tabaquero, an Amazonian traditional healer whose medical specialization focuses on tobacco-based treatments. | |||
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*BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech jab being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about -70C. | *BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech jab being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about -70C. | ||
*The vaccine has been developed by BAT’s biotechnology division, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola and is also developing a seasonal flu vaccine. | *The vaccine has been developed by BAT’s biotechnology division, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola and is also developing a seasonal flu vaccine. | ||
===2004: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079499/ Medicinal uses of tobacco in history]=== | |||
*I suggest we should set aside the prejudices generated by the ill-effects of tobacco smoking and examine the leaves systematically for substances of therapeutic value. | |||
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