With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Pleasure -- Popular Science
By denaturing nicotine before it reaches the heart and brain, a new vaccine could mute the addictiveness of tobacco products
Nicotine addiction is a hard habit to break. But what if you could never get hooked in the first place? Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York report in the journal Science Translational Medicine that they have developed a potential vaccine for nicotine addiction. In mice, the vaccine inhibits the effects of nicotine before they reach the heart or brain, making it seem as though the nicotine never entered the bloodstream.
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My Comment: I wonder if this science can also be used to eliminate the addictive properties of opiates like heroin?
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