Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Alcohol is being out-competed by nicotine (and maybe by pretty good non-alcoholic beer)

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 The WSJ has the story: Nicotine Is Hot, Beer Is Not. What Vice Stocks Say About America’s Guilty Pleasures. People are smoking less, but to...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Brain drugs, a review (performance enhancement, side effects, and addiction)

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 From the Free Press,  tasting notes on a variety of performance enhancing drugs for concentration, finally converging on what sounds like n...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Nicotine news--unintended consequences

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 Nicotine remains a big source of addiction, and (especially in connection with cigarette smoking) a major cause of premature death.  Here...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super bowl markets in ads and gambling (and also a football game)

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 Today is a big celebration of advertising.  But the advertisements have to be fitted into pauses in a football game.  That takes some doing...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...