(11-29-2025, 07:32 PM)rickymouse Wrote: Tobacco has been considered a medicine for centuries. Nicotine is a big part of that, but there are also other chemicals in tobacco that have medical benefits too. Nicotine is addictive, if I drink coffee, since I do not break down methyl well from the caffeine, I have to smoke a cigarette or I get the jitters. I also had a chronic cough when I was younger, from youth through my twenties. Then at thirty something I started to smoke and the chronic cough disappeared. I actually breath easier smoking. Now I cannot smoke the majority of cigarettes, I used to smoke Winstons and also some of the Native American full flavor cigarettes. Now I smoke the sun grown Lorado. What do those three have in common, hardly any additives. Also, the filter tubes I use for the cigarettes...I noticed something...the ones I have been using all along that are easier on my lungs and to draw through....they all are manufactured in Canada. Now the filter material approved in Canada is regulated and of higher quality, less plastic in the smoke I think. So I use Zig-Zag, and Gambler usually.
Now Canada has rules that any cigarette tubes made there must have canadian certified filters in them, whether sold there or exported. So the filters are less of a problem on my lungs is what I sense, and I did not even realize this till I started investigating the filters I have no problem with and the tubes I have more problems with.....It was the country of manufacturer. Now I can try to find cheaper filter tubes made in Canada. But with the import tax, all the canadian filters went up...good way to find out which are not produced in the USA. I remember when filters were made from cotton or some bamboo product years back, now they are made of a plastic compound....but because my cigarettes only cost about a buck twenty five a pack, I don't even get close to the filter....smoking about half or a little over half of the cigarette is easier on the lungs. I also am intolerant to Propylene glycol, a chemical they put in tobacco....so the more natural ones don't seem to have that. Is pyrazine and propylene glycol related? Well, the pyrazine is often mixed in propylene glycol so maybe that is where the pyrazine is added.
Now, if I don't drink coffee, I have no desire for a cigarette. That is what brought me to search why, and I found out that both methyl and ethyl poisoning are treated with nicotine or nicotinic acid. A cigarette brings the nicotine into the lungs, then into the blood and if you cannot break down methyl, the nicotine will quickly react with the methyl or ethyl and turn it into ammonia....hence, they made smoking in bars illegal, so they can give out more drunk driving tickets as a benefit...or just put on a patch. When niacin is metabolized, it turns to nitric oxide...whether in the stomach or through digestive enzymes in saliva and probably in the lungs too. too much can make you light headed or dizzy, because it lowers blood pressure quickly if you are dehydrated.
Man, I can go on and on with methods of action of chemicals we consume or in this case inhale that have effects on humans.
I am not sure but remembering that molybdenum can break down methyl groups also ?