For pregnant women with a nicotine addiction, a recent study shows that vitamin C supplements could help to improve lung function for newborns and even decrease the incidence of wheezing for infants through 1 year.
People standing near someone using an e-cigarette will be exposed to nicotine, but not to other chemicals found in tobacco cigarette smoke, according to a new study.
It might sound rather peculiar-and it certainly is-but did you know there's an insect that actually benefits from tobacco? It's the tobacco hornworm or Manduca sexta, and the creature actually chases its predators away with its nasty nicotine breath!
A chemical component present in the nightshade family of plants is one of the world’s most tenaciously addictive substances. It is the nicotine contained in tobacco and found in high concentrations in cigarettes.
