Nicotine

Omar Faqieh
Pioneers Baccalaureate School-Nablus, Palestine
3/16/2016
ABSTRACT
The paper is about chemical called nicotine. It includes traits of
nicotine like the chemical makeup, chemical structure, purpose,
its origin, etc
INTRODUCTION
Nicotine was taken out from tobacco leaves in 1828. The tobacco
leave was discovered by the Native Americans and its use was for
medicine. This goes back to 2000 years ago. i
METHODS
1. Marshmallow
2. Gummy bears
3. Sticks

DISCUSSION
Name of the Drug: Nicotine
Chemical Makeup: C10H14N2

ii

Chemical Structure

iii

Purpose of the Drug

Used in ciggarates for smoking. Also was used as a
medicine before knowing that it causes illness. iv
Side Effects of the Drugv
1. Less common
2. Blurred vision
3. dizziness
4. headache
5. nervousness
6. pounding in the ears
7. Rare
8. Fast or irregular heartbeat
9. hives, itching, rash, redness, or swelling of the skin
10.
11.

Symptoms of overdose
Dizziness

12.

fast heartbeat

13.

nausea or vomiting

14.

weakness

15.
16.

More common
Mouth sores, blisters, or irritation

17.

nausea or vomiting

18.

sore throat

19.
20.

Less common
Acid or sour stomach

21.

belching

22.

diarrhea

23.

dizziness

24.

heartburn

25.

hiccups

26.

mouth, tooth, jaw, or neck pain

27.

problems with teeth

28.

unusual tiredness or weakness

Presence in the World vi

A lot of people smoke ciggarattes around the world. The
rates are very high. About 5,800,000,000,000 ciggarates
were smoked in the year 2014. The rates are still rising.
However there are countries that have strict laws about
amoking ciggarates. And those countries rate of smoke is
decreasing. Those countries are United Kingdom, Australia,
Brazil, and others. However this specific country has very high
rates of smoking and it I increasing. This country is China.
China consumes ciggarates more than all the other low and
middle income countries.

In 2014:

Presence in Palestine

vii

Smoking is increasing in Palestine. Rate of smoking

ciggarates in Palestinian school for students from the
age of 13 to 15 was 16.5% for refugee students and
24.4% for non refugee students. In 2009 the rate of
students who smoke was 20.0%, 2010 was 25.0%, and
in 2012 the rate was 34.7%.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Miss Meha for her time to answer my
questions and giving us time in class to do the project. Also I
would like to thank the school for providing us with a class and an
internet connection to work with. I would like to thank my parents
for providing the material needed for this project. I would like to
thank Alaa Salman for helping me with this project by giving me
advises.

i http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Nicotine+-+Introduction+and+History
ii http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/nicotine/E-propriete.html
iii http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/nicotine/E-propriete.html
iv http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Nicotine++Introduction+and+History
v http://www.drugs.com/sfx/nicotine-side-effects.html
vi http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/topic/cigarette-use-globally/
vii http://www.cjbas.com/archive/CJBAS-13-01-02-01.pdf