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TOBACCO
         
         
         
         
 
 
What are tobacco?

Tobacco is a plant of the same family as the potato, tomato or eggplant: it has against by the specificity of containing nicotine. The smoke clears tobacco contains about 3 to 4000 and very active substances hazardous to health.
 
 
Consumption form : 

Tobacco is mainly smoked, in cigarettes with or without filter, at a pipe or in cigars.

In can also be chewed, but this form isn’t common. Snuff tobacco (inhalation) isn’t used anymore.

 
 
What are the effects?
Category : Depressor
Caractéristics : Brown or blonde, light or super light, rolled, in cigar or pipe. Tobacco is a plant grown all over the world. After drying, leaves are put to ferment to obtain a specific taste.
 

Short-term effects:
●   Increased cardiac rhythm.
●   Accelerated breathing.
●   Hypertension.
●   Body temperature drop.
●   Appetite limitation.
 
Long term effects:
●   Lung cancer.
●   Other types of cancer.
●   Ulcer.
●   Cough.
●   Cardiac crisis.
●   Breathing troubles.
●   Chronic bronchitis.
●   Emphysema.
 
 
Dependence:
Although physical tobacco dependence exists in some people, it’s mostly a type of psychological dependence that makes smoker to consume. A regular smoker brutally deprived of consumption feels a sensation of lack. He becomes nervous, irritable, anxious and depressed. He can have tremors or sweats; it’s very difficult for him to repress the desire of smoking.
 
 
Legislation :
Tobacco is a licit product, its sale and use are regulated.

 
     
 
 
 
 
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