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by fragmede 259 days ago
> Doesn’t mean smoking cigarettes is good for working.

Fun fact; smoking likely is! There have been numerous studies into nicotine as a nootropic, eg https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1579636/#:~:text=Abstract,sh... which have found that nicotine improves attention and memory.

Shame about the lung cancer though.

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Nicotine does not cause cancer. Smoke do
Yes however nicotine can speed up the growth of existing cancers.