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Drug group:
Stimulant
Plant name:
Nicotiana Tabacum
Background:
More information soon!
Distribution:
Sold legally in shops, bars, etc.
Slang:
Ciggies, smokes, cancer sticks, Gwai
Form:
Cigarettes, rolling tobacco, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco
Effects:
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When smoked in short puffs, nicotine acts as a stimulant, and can make you feel excited and energetic.
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When inhaled deeply, the effect is more likely to be relaxing, which explains why smokers use cigarettes at times of stress.
Risks:
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Nicotine is an extremely addictive drug and even those who have successfully quit are still in danger of going back to the habit.
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In larger doses, nicotine is a highly toxic poison that can cause vomiting, headaches and nausea.
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Smoking causes more deaths than fires, car crashes, AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, murders, and suicides combined.
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It contains over 4 000 different chemicals, causing lung cancer and organ damage.
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After quitting smoking, it takes 10 years before the risk of a heart attack falls to the level of someone who has never smoked.
Law:
It is illegal for shops to sell to minors. No advertising is allowed. Only tobacco with warnings can be sold.
Is Hubbly smoking dangerous?
Yes. Some people think Hubbly bubbly or hookahs (name of origin) deliver less tar and nicotine than cigarettes and have fewer health consequences because the smoke is filtered by the water. Not true, Thomas Eissenberg, head of the Clinical Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University in the US, said in a prepared statement. "Water pipe smoking may be associated with significant health risks, and we only now are beginning to accumulate information on the issue," Eissenberg said. Initial research indicates hookahs can increase carbon dioxide and nicotine exposure, speed up heart rate, and may contribute to heart disease and cancer. (News24)
Another danger of Hubblies is that many other illegal drugs (Dagga, Hash, Crack) are smoked in the "waterpipe" tradition, so it could pave the way for the use of harder drugs in the future.
According to the NIDA, "People who abuse drugs are also likely to be cigarette smokers. More than two-thirds of drug abusers are regular tobacco smokers, a rate more than double that of the rest of the population."
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