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Active constituent of tobacco
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nicotine
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nicotine is a chemical compound. Nicotine may also refer to: Nicotine Caffeine , a video game character Nicotinic acid, otherwise known as niacin or vitamin B Nicotine (software) "Nicotine", a song from the album Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! by Panic! ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) An alkaloid (C 10 H 14 N 2 ), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant. In small doses it is a habit-forming stimulant; in larger doses it is toxic and is often used in insecticides. 2 (context lang=en figuratively) tobacco, ...
Usage examples of nicotine.
Consequently, an addictive personality would mean that I wanted to become addicted, not just to nicotine, but to heroin and any other addictive substance.
Get it clearly into your mind: one ingenuity of the nicotine trap is that, like all drug addiction, it is designed to keep you hooked, and that the more it adversely affects your health and purse, the more securely you appear to be hooked.
The true reason was my addiction to nicotine, which caused me to have the stress in the first place.
I would explain to both of them the terrible power that nicotine addiction holds over its victims.
The nature of nicotine addiction is that it leaves you feeling permanently hungry and therefore more liable to become overweight.
Nicotine addiction currently claims over four million victims every year.
The fear that nicotine addiction engenders can cause otherwise pleasant and compassionate people to act like barbarians.
Although nicotine is the most powerful addictive drug known to mankind, it only relates to the speed in which it traps its victims.
After all, we all know how addictive nicotine is and what massive willpower it takes to stop.
This is the reason why nicotine patches are not addictive while cigarettes, which contain the same quantity of nicotine, are.
He watched Orval drag on the last of his cigarette close to his fingers, their joints gnarled and yellow from nicotine.
Drosera, and quickly cause strong inflection, it seems probable that strychnine, nicotine, digitaline, and hydrocyanic acid, excite inflection by acting on elements in no way analogous to the nervecells of animals.
Many of the symptoms associated with nicotine were the same as those caused by muscarine: salivation, sweating, abdominal pain, and lacrimation-the very same symptoms that had appeared in Patty Owen and Henry Noble.
She was behind me, drinking white wine, gossiping with Miles, the photo editor, a gaunt, stubble-chinned Englishman whose ringers were stained with nicotine.
I steeled myself for the long flight to come, anticipating the classic symptoms of nicotine withdrawal plus jet-lag: excitability, hyperirritability, racing thoughts, etc.