I have the honour to inform you that I do not smoke, because nicotine acts upon my system as a most powerful poison.
While the physiological effects of nicotine may be interesting to the medical practitioner, they will hardly interest the general reader unless it can be shown that the effects of nicotine and tobacco should be proved to be identical.
It is supposed by many but not substantiated by chemical research that nicotine is not the flavoring agent which gives tobacco its essential and peculiar varieties of odor.
Chemistry has taught us that nicotine is only one among many principles which are contained in the plant.
Having treated at some length of the various parts of the tobacco plant--stalk, leaves, flowers, capsules and suckers we come now to its nicotine properties.
An English writer says: "Nicotine is disagreeable to the habitual smoker, as is proved by the increased demand for clean pipes or which by some mechanical contrivance get rid of the nicotine.
Blotin tested by numerous experiments the effects of nicotine on the various parts of the organization of man.
An example of such a curve is furnished by nicotine and water.
One point upon which every medical authority agrees is--that the use of nicotine is of deadly effect upon the immature organism.
I know also that I might accustom my system to it, just as I might learn to poison my lungs with nicotine without being made immediately and suddenly ill; but why should I wish to do this?
In the same way a man who has not injured his nerves by nicotine or alcohol does not know that he has any nerves, but on the other hand, nerves being destroyed by narcotics fight back, and make their agony known.
A man in the last stage of nicotine poisoning, when told by his doctor, "you must either give up smoking or you will die" answered "then I prefer to die.
The nicotine tablets will enable the taker to poison himself without also poisoning others.
I believe that if tablets of nicotine were manufactured, each one representing the drug value of say one cigarette, they would constitute a real safeguard against such accidents.
I do not wish to convey that nicotine tablets would ever take the place of smoking, but they would have the advantage of safety, and no disadvantage that I know of except that they are a little slower in action.
The old adage that ignorance is bliss can never be aptly applied to nicotine and alcohol.
His entire system was heavily charged with nicotine and alcohol; and the effect of these poisons constantly operating upon his nervous system and digestive organs had made him but a wreck of his former self.
When we examine what doctors have written about the use of these poisons, we find that alcohol as well as nicotine is a stimulant and a narcotic.
Petheridge Jukesbury, president of the Society for the Suppression of Nicotine and the Nude, Margaret's almoner in furthering the cause of education and temperance.
The shirt, with its nicotine and other stains, was open at the neck, displaying a black and long-haired breast.
It was strong enough of nicotine to drive a wharf-rat to suicide.
One-sixteenth of a grain of nicotine may prove fatal.
The reason there are so few deaths from acute tobacco poisoning is that but very little of the nicotine is absorbed.
Most of the nicotine in tobacco becomes volatilized and decomposed during combustion; a small part, however, may form a solution with the water which is also one of the combustion products.
As already stated, nicotine is soluble in water, and its entrance to the mouth in this form is thus obviated.
This tobacco has a low nicotine percentage (less than one per cent) and its peculiar aroma is due to its exposure for nearly 6 months to the smoke of the tree known as Quercus Ilex.
Strong tobacco does not necessarily contain a high percentage of nicotine as is usually supposed.
From this analysis it appears that pipe mixtures contain the largest amount ofnicotine in the tobacco (2.
But it is well for the smoker to bear in mind that the more gradually the nicotine is absorbed into his circulating system, the better.
A dose of pure nicotine stops the heart instantly, a narcotic dose interferes with its action, but a stimulant dose facilitates it.
We have seen teeth which had been kept for months in a preparation of nicotineand were in excellent condition.
A fatal dose of nicotine kills, just like prussic acid, by paralyzing the medulla, and thus stopping the heart's beating.
Nowadays we make use of the nicotine principle of tobacco in our warfare against the aphis, but in a manner that leaves out the objectionable features of fumigation.
Tobacco manufacturers have prepared an extract of the nicotine in the plant, and put it on the market under the name of nicoticide.
If they lift the crown of the plant out of or above the soil, and the roots give them the appearance of a plant on stilts, don't be frightened, and repot them, setting them low in the soil to cover the roots.
In this manner a large yield of perfectly colourless nicotine is obtained.
In order to obtain the pure alkaloid, caustic baryta is added to the solution, the latter evaporated to dryness, and the pure nicotineextracted with ether.
It is highly poisonous, and resembles conine and nicotine in its general properties.
Its active principle, an alkaloid--nicotine or nicotia --is combined with a vegetable acid.
It is a fortunate thing that almost all of the nicotine passes off, or is burnt up, or else the effect would be more markedly disastrous.
Severe, acute nicotine poisoning," remarked Kennedy, as he rejoined us a moment later.
A few drops of pure nicotinehidden by that pretty gilt tip would have accomplished all that the bitterest anarchist could desire.
What harm can the nicotine in one cigar do, if taken pure?
If the cigar burns well, more of the nicotine is consumed and decomposed.
Cigars, therefore, which contain little nicotine and burn poorly, are more narcotic in their effects than well burning cigars which contain a greater quantity of nicotine.
As a rule, the finer the quality and flavor, the less nicotine the tobacco contains.
The quantity of nicotine varies much in tobacco, or from one-half of one per cent.
All the time the craving for nicotine increased in intensity, until he was half frantic.
It means, jilt Miss Nicotine in haste, and repent at leisure.
Had Joseph and his associates been familiar with the isolation of nicotine and its properties, they would undoubtedly have mentioned it in sermons especially directed against the use of tobacco.
The intensely poisonous nature ofnicotine is illustrated by a number of cases on record.
It was in 1828, about five years before Joseph Smith's doctrine with respect to tobacco was given, that nicotine was obtained in a pure state.
But tobacco smoke is more harmful than smoke from a stove, for it has nicotine in it.
Chewing tobacco is the most poisonous way of using it, for it keeps most of the nicotinein the mouth.
Cigars are not so poisonous as a pipe, for more of the nicotine is burned up.
Nicotine is one of the most rapidly fatal poisons known.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nicotine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
