Nicotine Could be Listed as Performance Enhancing Drug

The World Anti-Doping Agency could take the first step Saturday toward classifying nicotine as a performance-enhancing drug. The agency will be updating its list of banned substances and has a report from a lab in Lausanne describing "alarming evidence" of nicotine use by athletes across 43 sports studied. The report says WADA and sport federations should evaluate whether to put nicotine on the list of prohibited substances or begin monitoring its use. The report says nicotine increases pulse rate and reduces stress and body weight. It calls smokeless tobacco "very attractive" as a doping product because it does not damage breathing. The WADA executive committee is meeting in Lausanne. AP

I hope this doesn't apply to computer jocks. No Copenhagen, no The Westerner. I just couldn't sit here...nor put up with all the DC Deep Thinkers.