it can contain potentially harmful substances, including nicotine, cancer-causing chemicals, heavy metals (such as nickel, tin, and lead), tiny particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs, volatile organic compounds, and flavorings
Tobacco usage in the U.S
In honor of Nicots efforts, the plants botanical name, Nicotiana , was later derived from his name
But while Tobacco Road does have one or two passages that are critical of the share-cropping economy, the overwhelming bulk of the book presents nothing that can remotely be characterized as "sympathetic" to the people he portrays
It consists of smoke from the burning end of the cigarette, called side stream smoke, and smoke exhaled by the smoker, called mainstream smoke