Introduction To Tobacco: Knowing more about Tobacco Abuse and Nicotine

Table of Contents

Introduction
Types of Tobacco
Tobacco Curing
Addictive Nature of Nicotine
Tobacco Production Concerns
Forms of Tobacco Usage
Chewing Tobacco Leaves
Beedi
Tobacco Paste/Cream Snuff
Gutka
Cigars and Cigarettes
The Water Pipe or Hookah
Pipes
Kreteks
Snuff
Tobacco to Heal
Burns and Stings
Joint Pains
Tobacco for Tooth Problems
Remedy for Night Blindness
Earache and Ear Problems –
Alopecia – baldness
Tips for Controlling That Craving
Fennel
Diet Change
Boost up the Vitamin C and Honey Intake
Other Things on Which to Chew
I Will Stop at One…
Identifying Triggers
Exercise and Occupying Your Mind and Hands
Stress Busting
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

The books in the healthy learning and gardening series published by Mendon Cottage books have given you a lot of knowledge about healthy plants, spices, herbs, flowers and trees, out there.
This book is introducing you to a plant which has been known as the good weed, tobacco, tabac and other local names, all over the world. It’s usage is recreational and it is recognized in some form or the other, all over the globe.

The dried leaves of this particular plant is either pressed into powder, plugs, or it can be sliced into crumbly flakes. This book is going to tell you all about this plant, as well as its harmful side effects on the health of man and beast.

Tobacco is a native of North America, where the native Americans used it as a trade item. South Americans also knew it as an appetite suppressor. That is the reason why people of native South American tribes smoked these dried tobacco leaves when they knew that they would not have enough of food to fill their stomachs that day.

The tobacco which you are going to find all over the world is important and powerful nicotiana rustica, even though the chief commercially grown crop is N. Tabacum.

This preparation obtained from the drying of leaves is going to have it stimulant which is known as nicotine. This alkaloid is normally taken as chewing tobacco, snuffed as snuff or smoked in pipes, cigars, cigarettes, and also the Middle Eastern “shisha” which is flavored tobacco.

Believe it or not, tobacco is the world’s greatest responsible factor for deaths which can be prevented. But as mankind has an innate and subconscious self-destructive instinct put into him by mother nature, tobacco products manufacture also happens to be a multibillion dollar industry, all over the world.