Nicotine - Nicotine is ingested through the mouth by either chewing tobacco or inhaling cigarette smoke or nicotine vapors. While the legal age for purchasing tobacco products used to be 16 years old throughout the United States, recent legislation has raised the age. In most states in the United States, the legal smoking age is 18 years old though some states have risen the age to 21 years old.

Watch the following link http://www.jeffreywigand.com/60minutes.php. Then answer the following questions.

1. How did cigarette companies make their cigarettes more addictive, according to Dr. Wigand?

2. Explain how someone becomes physically and psychologically addicted to nicotine.

3. Describe how nicotine use effects the CNS as it mimics acetylcholine in the brain.

4. Are smokeless tobacco products safer to use than cigarettes (e.g. e-Cigarettes, chewing tobacco)?