"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Full Circle: When it was first introduced to Europe, tobacco was used almost exclusively as a medication. Apothecaries sold it as a tincture of boiled tobacco leaves called herba sancta Indorum. Now, tobacco leaves are again playing a medicinal role - this time in cancer research. The tobacco has been genetically engineered to grow pieces of human lymphoma.