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It's a pesticide. A lot of insects are very sensitive to nicotine, so they avoid tobacco plants (the ones that don't avoid them don't live long enough to reproduce).
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How is nicotine produced?
Nicotine is a natural chemical found in tobacco and some related plants. For non-tobacco products it is usually refined from tobacco, although it can be produced synthetically.
What is the main pollinator of the tobacco plant?
Tobacco Plants Control Pollinators by Dosing Their Nectar With Nicotine
Is it possible to measure the level of nicotine in tobacco plants?
Yes, and you can believe the tobacco companies do it all the time.
Can tobacco be used as pesticide for plants?
Tobacco juice... specifically, the nicotine contained in it... is sometimes used as a pesticide.
What does smokeless tobacco contain?
The same as all other plants - mostly cellulose and water.
What is the less harmful rolling tobacco?
tobacco has nicotine in it naturally, it is the plants own insectaside
Is nicotine a nutrient a plant pigment an insecticide or a growth agent in plants?
Nicotine is an alkaloid produced by plants, particularly by tobacco plants. It affects the nervous system of animals. It can be used as an insecticide also.
Do peanuts contain nicotine?
No. First, the peanut and tobacco plants are not even in the same family. Second, nicotine- if eaten, is very poisonous. Ask anyone that has ever accidentally swallwed a chew of tobacco.
Is there nicotine in pipe tobacco?
No no marijuana is not addictive,nor damaging it gives you good feeling and helps you sleep, well THC is a substance in weed that makes you get that high feeling when it might not be so cool, people can do it for a variety of reasons, sick, haves cancer, upset.
Is nicotine a synthetic drug?
No, it is a naturally occurring compound found in the Nightshade family of plants, which includes tobacco.
Where do you get nicotine?
smoked (as smoking tobacco, mapacho, etc.), insufflated (as tobacco snuff or nicotine nasal spray), chewed (as nicotine gum, tobacco gum or chewing tobacco), trans-dermal (as nicotine patch, nicogel or topical tobacco paste),intrabuccal(as dipping tobacco, snuffs, dissolvable tobacco or creamy snuff), directly inhaled(as nicotine inhaler),oral(as nicotini), buccal(as snus)
How much nicotine in shisha?
Depends on how much tobacco, what nicotine content of tobacco.
