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Singapore's smoke-free law may have warded off 20,000 heart attacks in people over 65 (medicalxpress.com)
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[-] Teotwawki@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, nicotine is a vasoconstrictor. Smaller blood vessels = higher blood pressure and higher risk of heart attacks and stroke.

[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I've been using the nicotine pouches and there's only addiction warning labels on them. But the whole time I'm thinking, I'm pretty certain nicotine isn't good for the heart..

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