PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Tachycardia, Stimulant, Blood Vessel
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With this form, inhaled tobacco smoke first passes through a bowl of water. Products called chew, snuff and dipping tobacco (user either chews or pockets in their cheeks: dissolvable tobacco is another type of smokeless tobacco. Contain amounts of nicotine like those found in cigarettes: cigar use is increasing, cigar use increased more than 70% for two important reason. 3 primary causes of tobacco related death each year are 1) cancer 2) pulmonary disease 3) cardiovascular disease. Discovery of tobacco: discover3y of fossilized leaves of nicotiana tabacum in peru suggest that tobacco existed at least 2. 5 million years ago. In religious ceremonies, tobacco was smoked to achieve a trancelike state. Jerez became the first european to smoke tobacco. Louis nicolas isolated nicotine as a key ingredient in tobacco. Liver enzyme differences and the metabolism of nicotine: once absorbed nicotine readily passes through the blood-brain barrier.
