Part one of term paper
So you think you want to start smoking? Before I go into teens and smoking, I thought I’d tell you a little about the history and other important facts about nicotine and tobacco. Nicotine is the prime alkaloid of tobacco. It is a plant belonging to the genus Nicotina. More than sixty species belong to this genus. Although N.tobacum is ...

Part two of term paper
... in 1585. Raleigh also introduced the tradition of smoking it in a pipe. To comfort this tradition, many colonial inns hung clay pipes above their hearths for use of travelers. After smoking their tobacco they would break off a bit of the end and place it back above the hearth for the next person. By 1620, planters started to grow their own supply of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million poun ...