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Plant extract trumps nicotine patches to quit smoking

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Plant extract trumps nicotine patches to quit smoking

For decades, smokers in eastern Europe have used cytisine from laburnum trees to help them quit. Good results in a new trial could make cytisine much more popular

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Menthol increases nicotine addiction by tweaking brain

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Menthol increases nicotine addiction by tweaking brain

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Enter the kaleidoscopic world of cancer drug crystals

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Enter the kaleidoscopic world of cancer drug crystals

Regulars

Australian smokers learn to accept gruesome packets

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Australian smokers learn to accept gruesome packets

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First 'smoking' TV ad for half a century a bad move

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First 'smoking' TV ad for half a century a bad move

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First world war dysentery bug was penicillin-resistant

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First world war dysentery bug was penicillin-resistant

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Smoke without fire: What's the truth on e-cigarettes?

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Smoke without fire: What's the truth on e-cigarettes?

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LSD's ability to make minds malleable revisited

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Kew's Intoxication season: live the high life

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Kew's Intoxication season: live the high life

CultureLab

Linking cannabis and suicide doesn't prove causation

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Linking cannabis and suicide doesn't prove causation

A study linking daily cannabis use to suicide got a lot of coverage earlier this week, but, Michael Slezak says, correlation does not mean causation

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WHO vaping report is 'misguided', say tobacco experts

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US aiming to help more heroin addicts and jail fewer

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Modified yeast makes opiates for the first time

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UK push to put warning labels on alcoholic drinks

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