An Overview of Tobacco Leaves: Advantages and Disadvantages
Tree tobacco was originally found in Argentina, but now grows worldwide. Tobacco, the non-food crop species, is an attractive option for recombinant protein production. Tobacco leaves are harvested before flowering, significantly reducing the potential of gene leakage into the environment through pollen or seed dispersal. Let’s know about the advantages and disadvantages of this tree leaf.
Advantages
Tribal healers also found tobacco plants helpful for various illnesses, including asthma, ear pain, bowel problems, toothaches and burns. Teas made from tobacco leaves were used against intestinal worms, as a laxative, to induce vomiting, as an expectorant, for fainting and dizziness, as well as for headaches. But there is no good scientific evidence to support any of these uses. Tobacco leaves are applied to cuts as an antiseptic and to stop bleeding.
Disadvantages
Tobacco contains the chemical nicotine, which is an addictive substance. Including nicotine, there are at least 30 chemicals in smokeless tobacco that are known to cause cancer. When a man smokes in a public place, a lot of nicotine mixed with the air. It makes uncomfortable for another people.
After discovering of smoking through cigarette, the rate of smoking is raising highly. Nowadays people smoke as a fashion. Even teenage students are taking cigarette. Smoking causes the heart to stop beating, brain damage, severe muscle weakness and spasms, cough, severe vomiting, breathing problems, seizures, high blood pressure, and death. If the young fellows take cigarette and smoke, they will lose their existence in early age.
Tree tobacco contains a chemical called anabasine. This chemical is poisonous. Anabasine can be harmful to mother. It may cause birth defects. If mother carries anabasine in her body, she can’t breastfeed her baby. The poisonous chemical will enter in baby’s body through breastfeeding. Anabasine will turn into cancer in the baby’s body. So, mothers must stay away from smoking.
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