BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Morphine, Reward System, Cold Turkey

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

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Tobacco is the most dangerous substance in the world. Causes of death north america (2001: 1/3 of cancer death is via lung cancer; caused by tobacco, 1/3 of heart attacks from tobacco, 1/3-1/2 of cerebrovascular disease from tobacco, contribution of lower respiratory disease. Tobacco kills 420,000 per year (north america) Columbus discovers tobacco 1492 500 y/o discovery. On his 2nd day in the new world; noticed that some local indigenous people were consuming rolled up leaves smoking at one end, called (cid:862)dri(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g the s(cid:373)oke(cid:863) Natives drank smoke from tobbagos: first shipment to spain. Jea(cid:374) ni(cid:272)ot i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)ed to(cid:271)a(cid:272)(cid:272)o to fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)l(cid:859)her(cid:271)e (cid:374)i(cid:272)otai(cid:374)e(cid:895) Tobacco used to revive drowning victims: make fire with tobacco and force the smoke into their lungs. Smoking in a pipe: large amount of acid in tobacco, as smoke burns the acids condense out (why pipes have long stems)