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Nicotine is a strong appetite suppressant. With cigarettes, I don't think the worst aspect is nicotine but everything else like tar, burning material, etc. Ni
by tmccrary55 5y ago
Nicotine is a strong appetite suppressant.
With cigarettes, I don't think the worst aspect is nicotine but everything else like tar, burning material, etc.
Nicotine itself is pretty similar to caffeine.
- consumer451 5y agoLikely the worst component of cigarettes is Polonium 210. This apparently comes from phosphorus rich fertilizers. This is quite an interesting rabbit hole to jump into. https://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+polonium+tobacco https://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+polonium+tobacco One of the more interesting ones: “Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue“ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/ My hot take: Tobacco seems like the most important product to consume from “organic” growers.
- xyzzy21 5y agoYep. And a lot of this is made worse by using mined phosphate fertilizers which are formed geologically such that transuranic daughter elements are concentrated into the phosphate. Tobacco itself also concentrates them.
- xyzzy21 5y agoNicotine also has nootropic effects (just like amphetamine and cocaine).