Hey, can somebody give me one of those alcohol free rums to go with my non-nicotine tobacco? Right after that, I’m gonna go jump in the pool with no water in it.
GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine
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The issue though, is more about the “tag-along genes” (CRISPR cannot as it currently stands bring only one gene) along with it. These genes that are “tag-along” genes are often less understood in terms of their role in the genome. Inserting these genes into a different species could easily exert unexpected effects. This is why I believe very tightly regulated laboratories are the best place for use of CRISPR and not in “real world” applications at this time….. the technology is very cool and promising…. but application as it stands at the moment has a lot of inherent (pun intended) risks to a wild or agricultural genome.But the resulting organism, if it has the desired traits, has the very same genetic structure as if that trait were achieved via hybridization. Right?
There is no fundamental difference in genetic material between a human being and a potato, is there? Just the order in which it's put together. It's all the same nucleotides.
So what difference does it make where they come from? It's like saying distilled water from the Pacific is different than distilled water from lake Superior. Same water.
That's what I mean about a lack of understanding. People have this *feeling* that an organism modified in one way is somehow different than an organism modified in another, when the results are exactly the same.
With all the nicotine pouches hitting the market and finding buyers, the bigger push seems to be using science to get the tobacco out of nicotine.
I smoke some low nicotine blends, but I also frequently home blend those with more potent tobaccos. I would be lying to myself and everyone else if I said I don’t smoke for the nicotine.
That said, I am pretty sure my father-in-law just likes smoking. He is trying to cut back on cigarettes, so he frequently substitutes a 2mg nicotine pouch. When I have used pouches or snus, 12-16mg is my minimum. Often, 22-24 mg is my standard for snus. My father-in-law outweighs me by 100 pounds and towers over me, but a 12 mg pouch would have him woozy and hiccuping. His decades of smoking don’t seem to be driven by a need for nicotine, and the pouches don’t scratch his itch to inhale smoke.
I smoke some low nicotine blends, but I also frequently home blend those with more potent tobaccos. I would be lying to myself and everyone else if I said I don’t smoke for the nicotine.
That said, I am pretty sure my father-in-law just likes smoking. He is trying to cut back on cigarettes, so he frequently substitutes a 2mg nicotine pouch. When I have used pouches or snus, 12-16mg is my minimum. Often, 22-24 mg is my standard for snus. My father-in-law outweighs me by 100 pounds and towers over me, but a 12 mg pouch would have him woozy and hiccuping. His decades of smoking don’t seem to be driven by a need for nicotine, and the pouches don’t scratch his itch to inhale smoke.