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Re:Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany by lencastre on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:20AM (#37351956)
Cognitive upsides? Sounds like Cowboy Man copy… the Surgeon General aproves this message.

Or do you mean people worked faster because they couldn’t during their cig break?

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Re:Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany by OfSanguineFire on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:08AM (#37360410)
Nicotine has been added to energy drinks in Japan for years. The claim that it has cognitive upsides is not necessarily cigarette-company propaganda.
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Re:Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany by krispyfi on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:19AM (#37367695)
Do you have any links for this? I could only find references to nicotinamide, not nicotine.
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Re:Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany by OfSanguineFire on Sunday September 03, 2023 @06:19PM (#37375146)
No links at hand, and I was unaware of the term “nicotinamide” for a form of vitamin B3. I am quite sure that I read claims of nicotine specifically being added, but I now suspect that the people writing that were misled by the name of nicotinamide. Thanks for enlightening me.
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