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How Do Nicotine and Tobacco Affect the Nervous System?
Question by doughboythehippie: how do nicotine and tobacco affect the nervous system?
I need everything there is to know about it. i need to be an authority on it by tomorrow. thank you
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Brandan
Best answer:
Answer by Dreamy
Nicotine acts on certain cell membrane receptors.
Answer by supergirl20002000
bout 62 million people in the United States ages 12 and older, or 29 percent of the population, are current cigarette smokers, according to the 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. This makes nicotine, the addictive component of tobacco, one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the United States.
Effects of Nicotine
A Cigarette=Half an Hour?
According to the latest survey, a cigarette will kill people half an hour lifetime, which astonished thousands of people.
Why are tobacco products harmful? Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, including the:
Cigarette smoking approximately doubles a person’s risk for stroke.
If you smoke, you have a two to three times greater risk of developing cataracts than a non smoker. Cataracts are a leading cause of blindness worldwide.
1. Smokers have more periodontitis or gum disease than non smokers. 2. Reducing the use of cigarettes, pipes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and other tobacco products could prevent most of the estimated 30,200 new cases and 7,800 deaths from oral cavity and pharynx cancers.
Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% of lung cancer deaths in women. 2. Cigarette smoking is associated with a tenfold increase in the risk of dying from chronic obstructive lung disease.