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Kozlowski, L. T., Henningfield, J. E. & Brigham, J. (2001). What nicotine does to the body. In Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Series: Cigarettes, nicotine, & health: A biobehavioral approach (pp. 51-64). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781452232669.n4

Kozlowski, Lynn T., Jack E. Henningfield and Janet Brigham. "What Nicotine Does to the Body." In Cigarettes, Nicotine, & Health: A Biobehavioral Approach, 51-64, Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Series. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2001. doi: 10.4135/9781452232669.n4.

Kozlowski, L T, Henningfield, J E & Brigham, J 2001, 'What nicotine does to the body', in Cigarettes, nicotine, & health: a biobehavioral approach, Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Series, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 51-64, viewed 20 November 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781452232669.n4.

Kozlowski, Lynn T, et al. "What Nicotine Does to the Body." Cigarettes, Nicotine, & Health: A Biobehavioral Approach. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2001. 51-64. SAGE Knowledge. Web. Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Series. 20 Nov. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781452232669.n4.

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What Nicotine Does to the Body
What nicotine does to the body

Think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of nicotine… Think of a puff of smoke as a vehicle for nicotine… Smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimized dispenser of smoke.

—William Dunn, Senior Researcher for Philip Morris Company (1972) as quoted in Hurt and Robertson (1998)

Two thousand degrees Fahrenheit. From the microblast furnace core of the burning cigarette, nicotine is vaporized and freed to quickly enter the body through the lung. Racing with the blood, it reaches the brain faster and affects the rest of the body more readily than could be achieved by intravenous injection. Even when delivered to the body ...

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