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Working toward a vaccine to stop nicotine addiction

U.S cigarette consumption 1900–2000

Is it really safer to smoke e-cigarettes instead of tobacco?

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Pack of cigarettes

Snuffing Out Smoking

Hand washing. Healthcare worker washing hands in hospital sink under running water. contagious diseases wash hands, handwashing hygiene, virus, human health

17 Questions About Health and Wellness Answered

Aspirin pills.

7 Drugs that Changed the World

Photo of the antacid Tums

How Do Antacids Work?

Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

9 Mind-Altering Plants

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World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.

26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

nicotine: Media

chemical compound

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Working toward a vaccine to stop nicotine addiction

Working toward a vaccine to stop nicotine addiction

Developing a vaccine to fight nicotine addiction.

Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Is it really safer to smoke e-cigarettes instead of tobacco?

Is it really safer to smoke e-cigarettes instead of tobacco?

Examining whether e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes.

Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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tobacco

tobacco

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum).

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U.S cigarette consumption 1900–2000

U.S cigarette consumption 1900–2000

Adult per capita cigarette consumption and major smoking and health events in the...

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