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DRUGS Drug-Infos       Alcohol Cannabis Cocaine Crack Ecstasy Heroin Ketamine LSD Meth Mushrooms Nicotine Speed Drug Checking Problems     Drugs & Society Alice in Drugland	NICOTINE • In America tobacco is smoked for ritual purposes since hundreds of years. In Europe it spread since the 16th century. Today about 25 % of the population of Germany are smoking regularly. • Long ago smoking tobacco cigarettes has become a business with billions of profit to which not the human being but the profit is central. • Nicotine, as a part of tobacco, acts lightly psychoactive. Frequent use leads to dependence. • Often mentioned reasons for smoking are enjoyment, relaxation, stimulation, conviviality, occupation, custom or dependence. • Furthermore unconscious advertisement images are associated with smoking of certain brands: the “cool cowboy”, the “relaxed Frenchman” or the “modern woman”. • Cigarettes contain besides nicotine numerous other substances (e.g. tar, lead, hydrocyanic acid, ...), that must be classified as dangerous to health. Furthermore by burning further poisonous substances are uncontrolled generated. • There’s an extreme increase of health risks: lack of fitness, skin aging, susceptibility to infections, smoker’s leg, lung cancer, cancer of the throat, heart attack, apoplectic stroke, … • In Germany about 1400.000 people a year die of the consequences of smoking. • Withdrawal syndromes are: testiness, restlessness, pains, as well as an obsession with the drug. • Even by passive smoking the risk of cancer and heart attacks. No other drug harms uninvolved people in a comparable extent. • A way to reduction: consciously limiting the daily number and define times and reasons. • The main cause to stop: breath! Questions / Comments / Problems: contact@alice-project.com ALICE - The Drug- and Culture-Project www.alice-project.com