Food Safety Experts Have Ties to Big Tobacco!

Borzelleca is the most active of a small group of scientists — including several with ties to Big Tobacco — that the food industry turns to over and over again to determine whether additives can be deemed “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, and avoid a rigorous pre-market government safety review.

Food safety scientists have ties to Big Tobacco. Yahoo News. Chris Young. April 15, 2015. http://news.yahoo.com/food-safety-scientists-ties-big-090000915.html

Neural Cells Might Explain Taste for Alcohol and Smoking Together!

"To drive a rat to drink, make it smoke first. Rats dependent on nicotine escalate their drinking more quickly than rats that haven’t been exposed to nicotine, researchers report in the April 15 Journal of Neuroscience. The results help explain why alcohol and tobacco addictions in people often go hand in hand." 

Nicotine exposure escalates rats’ desire for alcohol. Science News. Laura Sanders. April 14, 2015. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nicotine-exposure-escalates-rats%E2%80%99-desire-alcohol