New Anti-Smoking Tool – A Vaccine!
Posted in General Interest on 05/15/2005 08:05 am by adminJust saw this on Google News–
Finally someone is treating smoking as a disease –
Nicotine Vaccine Shows Promise
Wonder what tobacco companies will do about this?
LA Times took it down. But Houston Chronicle had it:
May 14, 2005, 11:01PM
Nicotine vaccine shows promise
Los Angeles Times
The world’s 1.3 billion smokers soon might have a powerful new way to kick the habit — a vaccine against nicotine.
Nearly 60 percent of smokers who achieved high levels of antibodies against nicotine after receiving the vaccine stopped smoking for at least six months, according to a study presented Saturday at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando, Fla.
About one-third of those who developed lower levels of antibodies stopped smoking, about the same fraction as those who received a placebo vaccine, according to Dr. Jacques Cornuz of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne, Switzerland, who led the study.
Dr. Roy Herbst of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston said he found the results intriguing. “I find it very encouraging that there is something to treat the addiction (to tobacco),” he said.