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Cigarettes
This category is for questions and answers about cigarettes. Information in this category can range from the pricing of modern and vintage cigarettes to their side effects and fatality statistics.
4,008 Questions
Were Cigarettes ever recommended or prescribed by doctors?
The pleasure prescription of an old practitioner." was that if the throat doctor, with all of his expertise, recommended a particular brand, then it must be safe.
An anisidine is any of three isomeric forms of the aromatic amine methoxyaniline.
What it means when you flip a cigarette of a new box?
People who flip a cigarette upside down when opening a new pack believe that it will bring them good luck.
Does the nicotine in cigarettes cause weight loss?
Theoretically, nicotine can cause weight loss, since it is a stimulant. However, smokers often lose weight in another way. If someone is a nervous eater, and they start smoking, then they will be more like to smoke when nervous rather than eat. So if they take in less food, they may experience some weight loss.
Is dropping cigarette ash considered littering?
Just the ashes wouldn't be littering, as they just blow away into nothing. The filters (butts) would be littering though. There are often piles of them in parking lot planters and medians, which is pretty disgusting. Some smokers have a tendency to throw their cigarette butts down on the ground wherever they finish it, and that is littering, as well as pretty inconsiderate.
What U.S. company sold cocaine cigarettes in 1885?
Parke-Davis sold cocaine cigarettes in 1885. They sold it in many other forms as well, including injectable. They claimed it would, "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and render the sufferer insensitive to pain."
What will help me stop smoking i don't have willpower?
I knew some kid in college who would use one match to light all his cigarettes. That is, he'd light the new one from the old one, continually. He didn't make it through the year, however. "Cigarette Smoking cures people -- one by one." I figure if he can die in pain from cigarette smoking, so can you! Or use a nicotine patch.
