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[Zagatto]

I stand corrected. Nicotine is actually very common in tobacco.
I went and did my research and found lots of web pages out there that talk about additives being put into tobaco by the cigarette companies.
Check out http://www.ash.org.uk/html/regulation/ht...tives.html which has an incredibly in depth article and lots of sources explaining what is added and what effect those additives have.

If I read that right, it's actually illegal to add nicotine to cigarettes.
It's not illegal to increase the pH of the tobacco which increases the "kick" and makes it more addictive. We can thank Marlboro for figuring this out first and the other companies noticed it after the big M went from 5th to 1st in sales in a very short period of time. Since then the big tobacco companies have devoted billions of dollars to researching how to make their product more addictive within the bounds of the existing laws.

Thanks for challenging me on this. I would have gone on thinking that nicotine was added to cigarettes if it weren't for this discussion.