Nicotine. The Deadly Tobacco Drug War Down Under Australia’s Prohibition-style attempts to abolish nicotine use have predictably led to a new drug war being fought over a legal substance.

Published in Addiction – a peer-reviewed journal that covers research related to alcohol, illicit drugs, tobacco and other addictions – a new report concluded that the overall rate of smoking ...

Alcohol was the fifth-most harmful drug and tobacco the ninth most harmful. Cannabis came in 11th, and near the bottom of the list was Ecstasy.

Australia’s Prohibition-style attempts to abolish nicotine use have predictably led to a new drug war being fought over a legal substance. The Deadly Tobacco Drug War Down Under Skip to main content ...

One relates to how illicit drugs and alcohol interact with tobacco use. So when you look at substances used by teens, tobacco use has shown the greatest improvements in the last 20 years.

Encouragingly, the new study also found that alcohol use, binge drinking and the use of tobacco products among young people between the ages of 12 and 17 also dropped between 2002 and 2013.

Tobacco products, with an estimated value of over €39,000, and represents a potential loss to the exchequer of over €31,000 ...

Tobacco plant-based drugs are not a new concept. But there are no treatments currently developed through tobacco plants that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Tobacco traders like Saikou Camara, who sources his stock from Guinea-Bissau and Casamance, both to the south of the country, insists that taba products should not be used in the wrong way.

But if you mark smokeless tobacco as a performance-enhancing drug in the same way of steroids or speed, well, then you might as well get rid of energy drinks, beer and caffeine, too.

Tobacco plant-based drugs are not a new concept. But there are no treatments currently developed through tobacco plants that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.