Tobacco poisoning

Tobacco poisoning

Acute poisoning rarely occurs, only in cases where a weak, skinny person suddenly finds himself in a room filled with tobacco smoke. He suffocates and loses consciousness. You need to take it out into the air, sprinkle your face with cold water, give ammonia-anise drops every 15 minutes (15 drops per dose) or a tablespoon of tannin solution (a teaspoon solution per glass of water).

Millions of people are chronically poisoned every day. The harm of smoking depends mainly not on the presence of nicotine in tobacco smoke, but on carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide) and a number of other poisons in the smoke, including hydrocyanic acid. When smoked, these poisons produce “tar,” the same one that turns smokers’ fingers brownish-yellow and is the cause of a number of serious diseases.

Smoking in the morning on an empty stomach is especially harmful; it definitely leads to stomach ulcers and duodenal disease. You must first eat a little something or drink coffee or milk, and then smoke. The most harmful are cigars and cigarettes, since many toxic compounds enter the mouth along with the smoke.

Smoking through a pipe and then through a mouthpiece causes less harm. and even less when smoking narghile, when the smoke passes through water, which is especially practiced among the Chinese. As a precaution, you should always put a piece of cotton wool into the lip end of the cigarette, on which all the harmful combustion products of tobacco will collect in the form of a brown mass.