1958/05/23 by Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, F.E. Armstrong · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medicine · #Detector #Environmental science #Field (mathematics) #Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping #Geography #Geology #Mathematics #Medicine #Nicotine #Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study #Oil field #Optics #Petroleum engineering #Physics #Political science #Psychiatry #Remote sensing #Smoking Behavior and Cessation #Traditional medicine
paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.2014.7.0264rep
published in OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 349, 2014.7.0264rep (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
openalex publication_date 1958/05/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/28
Nicotine, an alkaloid derived from the leaves of tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica) is the primary addictive agent in tobacco products.(1,2) There are different ways of administering the various products including smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco, holding moist snuff in the mouth, inhaling dry snuff through the nose, inhaling smoke from a waterpipe and inhaling vapour from an electronic cigarette.(3-6) It can be difficult differentiating the effects of nicotine from the many other toxic substances these products also contain. Here we review the pharmacological effects of nicotine but we will not review the well-known harmful effects of cigarettes, where it is primarily the toxins and carcinogens in tobacco smoke rather than the nicotine that cause illness and death.(7) A future article will consider the use of electronic cigarettes.