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Nabi, Glaxo sign nicotine-addiction vaccine deal

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Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI.O) and a unit of GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) signed a licensing agreement for Nabi’s experimental vaccine to treat nicotine addiction and the prevention of smoking relapse, the companies said, sending Nabi shares up 26 percent.
Nabi will get $40 million upfront and is eligible to get more than $500 million in option fees and [...]

Researchers Investigating Anti-Nicotine Vaccine

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Experts estimated that 500,000 Americans die each year from health complications related to smoking. Researchers said nicotine addiction is one of the nation’s major health issues, and although many smokers try to quit, most don’t succeed.
“Seventy percent of these individuals that want to stop smoking relapse within a one-year period,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director [...]

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The only ’safer’ cigarette is your last one.
Duane Alan Hahn .................................
You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead. Just don’t harm others when you do.
Jim Goebel .................................
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
King James I of England .................................
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields .................................
I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty.
Warren Buffett .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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