| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 20 Nicotine and Addiction |
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| Nicotine and Addiction: Historical |
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| "The use of tobacco...conquers men with a certain secret pleasure, so that those who |
| have once become accustomed thereto can hardly be restrained therefrom." |
| Francis Bacon, Historia Vital et Mortis, 1622 (Adolescent Medicine, June 1993, p. |
| 305) |
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| "The fetid and nauseating smoke of tobacco was brought...by English |
| infidels...pleasure-seekers and sensualists...became addicted, and soon even those |
| who were not pleasure-seekers began to use it. Many even of the...mighty fell into this |
| addiction." |
| Turkish historian Ibrahim Pechevi, 1635 (Newsweek, July 29, 1996, p. 80) |
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| "It is better to take no snuff at all than a little; for it is certain that he who takes a little |
| will soon take much, and that is why they call it 'the enchanted herb', for those who take |
| it are so taken by it that they cannot go without it." |
| Princess Elizabeth Charlotte of Orleans, about 1710 (Licit and Illicit Drugs, p. 211) |
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| "For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die." |
| Charles Lamb, 1820 |
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| In 1828 the chemists Posselt and Reimann of the University of Heidelberg isolated |
| nicotine as the major pharmacoactive ingredient in tobacco. In 1895, Pinner |
| established the chemical structure of nicotine as that of |
| 3-(1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)pyridine. |
| Quote from Cigars, p. 55 |
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