Smokers are told that they smoke tobacco for the effects of nicotine. Yet if you ask any smoker what nicotine does, you will find that they haven’t got a clue. The most common guess is: “I think it relaxes me, or something.”
I have asked thousands of smokers what nicotine does, over the last [...]

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I see the National Institute for Chemical Excess is at it again, trying to make sure no potential customers are missed in the brave project to get the whole of the U.K. on medication.
They are advising GPs to check back through their patient records for anyone with cholesterol levels that are allegedly ‘too high’ but [...]

Filed under: Drugs on Trial by Chris
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*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report it.*
Steadily [...]

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Although I’ve not had a lot of time to attend to the site since the Truth Will Out Campaign was launched, I did wonder why all the comments I was getting were coming through the Contact Us facility, no-one was apparently posting comments on the site itself. So I tested it, by trying to [...]

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Four hypnotherapy associations have already confirmed that they are actively supporting the Truth Will Out Campaign - informing their members, linking to the site and promoting the Campaign through newsletters and similar publications.
N.B. The only support we have ever requested is for professional associations to inform their members about the campaign so [...]

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I’m going to leave this subject aside for a bit after this, but thanks to my colleague up North who sent this in: a recent report by The Daily Mail’s Medical Correspondent Jenny Hope. Apparently the number of deaths in the UK from adverse reactions to medications has risen by 131 per [...]

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