BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alton Ochsner, Lethal Dose, Jean Nicot
22 Aug 2016
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Most dangerous substance in the world: kills more people than ddt, pcb"s, industrial chemicals, pesticides, cocaine, alcohol, homicide, suicide combined, kill more people by causing heart attach than lung cancer. Number one risk factor for the top three causes of death in north america. Kills 420,000 people per year (north america) Columbus discovers" tobacco on his second day in the new world. Natives drank smoke from tobbagos: rolled up tobacco leaves that were lit from one end. Jean nicot introduced tobacco to france (l"herbe nicotaine) Used to revive drowning victims by pushing the smoke into the lungs with a pump. It was a social thing that you only did once and a while (expensive and difficult to do in some ways: typically smoked in a club. Pipes: long stemmed pipes allows the smoke to cool down and removes some of the acid from the smoke making it less acidic and easier to consume (still hard to consume)
