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Sallee et al., 2000)

This one was a massive surprise

In 1998 India grew 0.46 million hectares of tobacco, around 0.25 percent of the total cropped area, and produced about 0.64 million tonnes

The good news is that ingested nicotine is poorly absorbed from the stomach due to the stomach acid providing a very low pH

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