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Depressant, stimulant, narcotic, or tranquilizer
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Initially, Nicotine is a stimulant ( the addictive part) as its' effects enter the body. Within 2-3 hours ( to the ideal of my knowledge), it becomes a depressant.
The same rule applies to alcohol .
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Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants (Solanaceae) which constitutes approximately 0.6–3.0% of dry weight of tobacco,with biosynthesis taking place in the roots, and accumulating in the leaves. It functions as an antiherbivore chemical with particular specificity to insects; therefore nicotine was widely used as an insecticide in the past, and currently nicotine analogs such as imidacloprid continue to be widely used.
In low concentrations (an average cigarette yields about 1 mg of absorbed nicotine), the substance acts as a stimulant in mammals
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Nicotine is primarily a stimulant, like any other drug it is addictive. Nicotine is made of probabably in the region of 200 carcinogens(diferent compounds /chemicals) S all in all there’s quite an assortment of crap going into your system everytime you light up, also an unborn baby will be getting a nice lot of yuk in their systems via the placenta before they’re even born.
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Stimulant. I know that it is found in bug spray though…
check out the website and it'll tell you all about it. hope this helps! =)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
Stimulant.
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Stimulant
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Neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
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