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There was significant difference in nicotine amount between imported and domestic brands of cigarettes. There was also no significant difference in nicotine content between light and normal cigarettes in imported brands.
Introduction Using tobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of disease and premature death worldwide. Tobacco use contributes in 10 global deaths and is the second major cause of mortality in the world., There are approximately 1.25 billion smokers in the world representing about a third of the adult global population; 800 million of these people live in developing countries. While the cigarette consumption has been increased in most of the developing countries, the past 25 years has been marked by a steady decline in cigarette consumption in some developed countries. However the world cigarette production has increased about four times during the last 50 years.- It has been reported that to date, more than 3000 chemicals have been isolated from tobacco which more than 1000 of these chemical constituents present in unburnt.- Nicotine is the major active molecule in cigarette smoke. It is an alkaloid present in the leaves of Nicotiana tabacom. It is colorless, highly volatile alkaloid.