What are the street names for it?

Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chew, dip, smoke, butt, snuff, bone, coffin nail, cancer stick, tabs, fags, ciggies.

What type of drug is it?

Nicotine (C 10 H 14 N 2 ) is a mild stimulant.

What does it look like?

Tobacco is an agricultural crop.
The genus (sub-group of Solanaceae) Nicotiana contains about 100 species, only two of which have been extensively cultivated for use in tobacco products. Of those two, Nicotiana tabacam, is the type of tobacco used today in smoking and chewing tobacco and it is the predominant variety of crop tobacco.

What is its history?

Experts believe that, as early as 6000 B.C., the tobacco plant, as we know it today, began growing in the Americas . Throughout the 16 th and 17 th centuries tobacco proliferated throughout Europe and Asia . Although the negative health effects of tobacco were documented as early as 1600, it was only recently that there has been a widespread realization of the dangers of long-term tobacco use.

How is it used?

Tobacco is available in a number of forms including snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. Tobacco is either chewed, in the case of snuff and chewing tobacco, or smoked in a pipe, cigar or cigarette form.

What are the effects?

When smoke is inhaled, the nicotine effects hit the brain about 8 seconds after. The effects are almost immediate but fade quickly, which encourages continual use.
Nicotine speeds up the heart rate and increases blood pressure. First time users may feel sickness, and/or dizziness. It's very easy to get hooked. Most smokers wish they'd never started.
Tobacco contains over 4000 chemicals, many of which are harmful to health. Smokers are more likely to suffer coughs and bronchitis. A long-term tobacco habit can lead to cancer, emphysema and heart disease, stroke, blood clots, poor circulation and ulcers - all of which can kill.
Breathing in other people's smoke (passive smoking) can cause breathing difficulties, asthma and even cancer.
Each year, smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires combined.

Physical Dependence:

moderate to severe

Psychical Dependence:

moderate

Tolerance:

moderate to strong