NICOTINE People smoke tobacco all over the world to lessen fatigue, to concentrate more on work, to relieve tension, to remove boredom. These are some of thecamouflage reasons which are argued to justify one's smoking when addic­tion has already taken deep roots. Tobacco addiction poses serious health risk to the smoker as well as the people living with the smokers. About 4000 chemi­cals have been detected in the mixture of gaseous and terry droplets that com­prise tobacco smoke. Of these have been singled out to be the most harmful and responsible for various diseases.

These are Carbonmonoxide, Nicotine, and Tar.. Carbonmonoxide is a colorless and odorless gas constituting 3-5% of a ciga­rette smoke and produced, during incomplete combustion. It is highly toxic and easily binds with haemoglobin in the blood to form carboxy-haemoglobin. It has 2000 times more affinity for haemoglobin…