Uses

     The primary use of nicotine is the tobacco plant, but nicotine is also found in some amounts in related

plants. Small amounts are in foods of the nightshade family, such as tomatoes and eggplants. As a

contact poison it is most effective as soap, as a laureate, oleate, or naphthenate. As a stomach poison

a combination with bentonite has come into use. Nicotine is used in cigarettes as well as treatments of

smoking cigarettes.

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