Ground glass is put in food to cause internal bleeding, and nicotine concentrated by boiling can cause a heart attack.
A man named Herbert Gilbert patented one back in 1963 that heated a nicotine solution and produced steam.
Even after recovering from the initial sickness, patients can be left in nicotine withdrawal that lasts for days.
E-cigarette users, who call themselves “vapers,” see them as a relatively harmless way to get a nicotine fix.
Then there is the nicotine: a stimulant that for the addict also has the added effect of calming the nerves.
nicotine stain on right forefinger, extending to middle of second phalanx.
The amount of nicotine does not appear to depend on the amount of curing.
His teeth are yellow with nicotine, and his lips cracked and stained with tobacco.
His fingers were stained with nicotine, and his teeth yellow from it.
Though I had made application of the nicotine, I had but little faith in it.
poisonous alkaloid found in tobacco leaves, 1819, from French nicotine, earlier nicotiane, from Modern Latin Nicotiana, formal botanical name for the tobacco plant, named for Jean Nicot (c.1530-1600), French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds and powdered leaves back to France 1561. His name is a diminutive of Nicolas.
nicotine nic·o·tine (nĭk'ə-tēn')
n.
A colorless, poisonous alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant and used as an insecticide. It is the substance in tobacco to which smokers can become addicted.
A poisonous chemical substance found in the tobacco plant.
