Comment by yetanotherphd
12 years ago
More like tobacco is rightly demonized for its harmful effects on health, but nicotine, which does not have these effects, is not. The market responds to informed consumers by providing nicotine without the tobacco.
I would chalk this this one up as a case of capitalism working [for the general good [this clarification shouldn't be necessary but it always is]].
> The market responds to informed consumers by providing nicotine without the tobacco.
Well, once tobacco has been socially stigmatized and huge taxes placed on it, anyway. I'm not sure nicotine gum/patches/e-cigs existed before the War on Smoking. I expect you could buy purified nicotine oil from chemical suppliers, but it'd be up to you to figure out how to use it (and do so without killing yourself).