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  2. Pipe smoking - Wikipedia

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    Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, less commonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, in a pipe. It is the oldest traditional form of smoking .

  3. Nicotine poisoning - Wikipedia

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    The LD 50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5–1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children. [19] [20] However the widely used human LD 50 estimate of 0.5–1.0 mg/kg was questioned in a 2013 review, in light of several documented cases of humans surviving much higher doses; the 2013 review suggests that the lower limit causing fatal ...

  4. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke.The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or simply released from the mouth, as is generally done with pipes and cigars.

  5. Tobacco pipe - Wikipedia

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    A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl ) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. [ 1 ]

  6. Snuff (tobacco) - Wikipedia

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    Graphic from the 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report entitled Smokeless Tobacco: Health Effects [18] Snuff is a cause of oral cancer, oesophagus cancer, and pancreas cancer. [12] All tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco, contain cancer-causing chemicals.

  7. Smoking - Wikipedia

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    Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person. Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled with a small rectangle of paper into an elongated cylinder called a cigarette.

  8. How Inhaling Wildfire Smoke Can Affect You in the Long Term - AOL

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    Fine particles in wildfire smoke—known as PM2.5 because they have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers—are so small that they can enter your lungs and even your bloodstream, according to ...

  9. Tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Cancer is caused by inhaling carcinogenic substances in tobacco smoke. Inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke (which has been exhaled by a smoker) can cause lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. In the United States, about 3,000 adults die each year due to lung cancer from secondhand smoke exposure.