Nicotine poisoning

Many people in life like to smoke, thinking that cigarettes can refresh themselves. However, it is recognized that smoking is harmful to health, especially the nicotine in cigarettes, which can cause great harm to human health. If you smoke for a long time, it will cause great harm to the lungs, body, and other parts. It can even be said to be equivalent to a chronic suicide. In short, smoking is very harmful, and nicotine is even more deadly.

If nicotine poisoning occurs, it will cause great harm to human health. So what are the harms of nicotine? If nicotine poisoning occurs, what harm will it cause to the body?

The smoke released when tobacco burns contains more than 3,800 known chemical substances, most of which are harmful to the human body. These include carbon monoxide, nicotine and other biobases, amines, nitriles, intoxicants, phenols, alkanes, aldehydes, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic compounds, hydroxyl compounds, heavy metal elements, organic pesticides, etc. The range is very wide. They have multiple biological effects and cause various harms to the human body.

Nicotine, also known as nicotine, is a colorless, transparent, oily volatile liquid with a pungent smell of smoke.

Nicotine is the main source of addiction. It only takes 7.5 seconds for the nicotine inhaled from cigarette smoke to reach the brain, giving the smoker a gentle and pleasant feeling. It can first excite and then inhibit the central nervous system. The half-life of nicotine in plasma is 30 minutes. When nicotine falls below a stable level, smokers will feel irritable, uncomfortable, nauseous, have a headache and crave a cigarette to replenish nicotine.

The nicotine in one cigarette can kill a mouse.

The nicotine in 25 grams of cigarettes can kill a cow.

40-60 mg of pure nicotine can kill a person.

The nicotine content in a cigarette varies depending on the quality of the tobacco leaves and the processing technology, and generally contains 1.5-3 mg per cigarette. When smoking, about 25% of the nicotine is destroyed by burning, 5% remains in the cigarette butt, and 50% diffuses into the air. Only 20% of the nicotine is actually absorbed by the human body. Therefore, some people can smoke a pack of cigarettes a day without showing any signs of poisoning. However, the stimulating and damaging effects of nicotine on many organs of the human body are increasing day by day.

Nicotine can cause stomach pain and other stomach problems;

Nicotine can cause high blood pressure, faster heartbeat, and even irregular heartbeat and induce heart disease;

Nicotine damages the bronchial mucosa and causes tracheitis;

Nicotine poisons brain cells and can cause central nervous system symptoms in smokers.

Nicotine is very harmful to the body. It is not only harmful to individuals, but also to the people around them. Therefore, for the sake of your health and the health of others, you must avoid smoking in public places. If you must smoke, try to choose places where there are no crowded places.