NicVAX ... maybe an alternative to reading Carr's book!

The latest "shot in the arm," so to speak -- and pun intended, for smokers looking for that magic cure-all ... may be here! And no, I wasn't thinking of book by Allen Carr that my brother, Richard from Connecticut recommends.

It's a vaccine that causes the body to produce antibodies that bind to nicotine, making the nicotine "bullets" too large to enter the brain. It was the headline news in yesterday's The Daily World (our local rag), but after looking the subject up and becoming the world's expert on NicVAX this morning, I'm wondering (1) how to buy stock in a couple of the companies that will be producing it (the company with the most advanced form of NicVAX is Nabi Biopharmaceuticals out of Boca Raton, Florida -- having labs in Rockville, Maryland) and (2) how to vaccinate every teenager in America over the next year or so.

If true ... whoopee! If not, it's back to reading Allen Carr's book -- I just received his book, No More Worrying -- The Easy Way to a Worry-free Life in this morning's mail.