SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - New York to outlaw electronic cigarettes ... what the heck is an elctronic cigarette?

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Originally Posted by August (Post 1985866)

Trace amounts of nicotine found in some foods should not be used to justify ingesting large amounts of the stuff for no other purpose than to get a buzz.

As you posted "Trace amounts" are the key.

An average cigarette contains about 9 milligrams of nicotine of which about 1 milligram is consumed by the body by smoking it. A typical cigarette contains about 1 gram of tobacco. (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/f...Tobacco/cigars)

The food that has nicotine occurring naturally in it have nicotine levels measured in nano-grams (1 billionth of a gram) per gram of food. Discounting the absorption ratio and the effects of cooking/preparing the food, I think that if a person were to consume enough food to come close to the amount of nicotine absorbed by one cigarette, they would have other gastric "issues".

One cigarette = 9 milligram of nicotine 0.009 gram
One potato = 15 nano-gram of nicotine 0.000000015 gram

(absorption rations not factored in)

So yeah, some food has nicotine - true fact
The amount of nicotine is of nano-significance compared to tobacco. :D