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Nicotine is the colorless, toxic alkaloid, C10H14N2, derived from the tobacco plant and used as an insecticide. It is the substance in tobacco to which smokers can become addicted. Nicotine is three times more deadly than arsenic and more poisonous than strychnine. Nicotine is the natural chemical structure of insecticide which is consequently similar to neurotransmitter acetylcholine
in controlling the flow of above 200 neurochemicals directly or indirectly.

Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco that causes alteration in the human brain making the man addicted to it. In addition, nicotine drugs cause intolerable withdrawal symptoms and nicotine addiction is the hardest dependence on drugs to break.
Nicotine protects the tobacco plant from being gobbled by the insects. The behavioral and pharmacologic uniqueness that resolve nicotine addiction is same as those establish addiction to drugs like cocaine and heroin.

Nicotine leads to a short-term enhancement in the heart rate, blood pressure and the blood flow from heart. Nicotine causes the narrowing of arteries that creates a disproportion between the cells demand for oxygen and supply of oxygen by blood.

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