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Apparently a large amount of produced liquorice goes to flavor cigarettes, up to 4% of the weight of a cigarette's tobacco blend is liquorice[0]. So I would wag
by umvi 6y ago
Apparently a large amount of produced liquorice goes to flavor cigarettes, up to 4% of the weight of a cigarette's tobacco blend is liquorice[0]. So I would wager that smoking liquorice has killed more people than eating it (not that that tidbit of info helps in the case of the man in the article).
[0] https://www.dkfz.de/de/tabakkontrolle/download/PITOC/PITOC_Tobacco_Additives_Liquorice_Extract.pdf https://www.dkfz.de/de/tabakkontrolle/download/PITOC/PITOC_T...
- tedunangst 6y agoI don't think it's the licorice that will kill you if you smoke 50 packs a day.
- floren 6y agoThat would be a cigarette every 1.4 minutes, for the entire 24 hours, by the way :)
- eeegnu 6y ago50 packs a month may be what they meant (about the average for chain smokers at more than 1 pack per day.) Or they did imply hyperbole.
- floren 6y agoAlmost certainly hyperbole, but imagining 50 packs a day made me run the numbers for a laugh.
- klyrs 6y agoOn one hand, you can compress that to once per minute and get a reasonable amount of sleep. A quick and guilt-inducing search informs me that one Matthew Tybor smoked a cigarette in a mere 36.44 seconds, so I guess that's plausible if we ignore the carbon monoxide? On the other hand, nicotine is a stimulant, so maybe you wouldn't need to?
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- umvi 6y agoLet me put it this way - based on the article I cited, removing licorice from cigarettes would probably result in a measurable drop in addiction and cancer rates (perhaps single digit %, but still measureable).