The Associated Press is reporting that an FDA scientific advisory panel has concluded that dissolvable tobacco products could reduce tobacco-related diseaseby helping people switch from cigarettes, to the less harmful smokeless products. For more, please see The Cigarette Smokescreen, which was published yesterday in the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas.
Historically, most cases of nicotine poisoning have been the result of use of dissolved nicotine as an insecticide.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning :
“Sixty milligrams of nicotine (the amount in about 30-40 cigarettes), has the potential to kill an adult who is not a smoker if all of the nicotine were absorbed. This figure is ~120 mg in chronic cigarette smokers, smoking an average of 20 non-light cigarettes delivering ~1.7 mg of nicotine each daily. One cigarette’s-worth of nicotine is enough to make a toddler severely ill. In some cases children have become poisoned by topical medicinal creams which contain nicotine.”
Soluble tobacco will only make it easier to consume a lethal dose, especially by accident, which does NOT add up to a “safer” product.