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Q: If nicotine is an insecticide why are tobacco users not poisoned by it immediately?
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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.


How do tobacco harm a cow?

Why would you want to... See related answer.


What is the sticky substance in cigarettes?

It is a toxic acid liquid that turns yellow/brown in air and light, an alkaloid in tobacco known as 'nicotine'. It is also used as an agricultural insecticide


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.


A major ingredient in tobacco that is addictive?

The major ingredient in tobacco that gets you addicted is nicotine.


What is the addictive substance in tobacco smoke?

Apex :) Nicotine is the addictive substance that is found on tobacco.


Does Djarum Black Cigars contain nicotine?

Yes, seeing as how they contain tobacco....


Did the first tobacco have nicotine?

Yes it did have nicotine that is why people get addicted to it


What does nicotine in tobacco do?

Nicotine causes you to form an addiction to tobacco. That's why producers of tobacco products use it; to make customers come back for more.


Is nicotine found in tea?

No there isn't There is no nicotine in tea. You only get nicotine from exposure to the burning of fermented tobacco leaves.


Is tobacco as adicting as drugs?

yes tobacco is addicting, there is nicotine in it