Three Main Components Of Cigarettes

Cigarette smoking is globally common, and it is notoriously known to cause many diseases, such as lung cancer. The three main components of cigarettes are nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide . Recently, cigarette disposals to open public spaces such as on public parks have also raised environmental concerns: possible effects of cigarette disposal on growth of plants.

Plants are important in the ecosystem. Plants are producers, which produce their own food through photosynthesis. As consumers cannot produce organic compounds by themselves but only through consumption, the survival of consumers is dependent on the plant population. If plant populations become extinct, consumers, including humans, are unlikely to survive in the long run.

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sativus, formulating my research question: how does different nicotine concentration affects the percentage germination and length of plant of R. sativus. I decided to experiment with R. sativus as the subject of my study because it is one of the crops most commonly consumed in South Korea, my home country, hence the results would have significance to our daily lives. As it does not produce nicotine by itself unlike tobacco plants, this makes the influence of nicotine even more unpredictable. From this investigation, I would also like to explore unexplored areas of effect of nicotine on plants, not on humans. If nicotine inhibits growth of R. sativus, this would suggest that nicotine also harms human health severely; however, if nicotine promotes growth of R. sativus, nicotine may be used as fertilizer. In such case, new research should be made to ensure the detrimental effect of nicotine does not affect human health. Furthermore, such results may debunk the common stereotype that nicotine is absolutely harmful. It may also have benevolent use for humans if handled

One scientific study researched effect of different nicotine concentration on Oryza sativa and Zea mays. In this research, the quantity of nicotine dose has an opposing effect: increase in nicotine dose inhibited the percentage germination and growth of radicle and plumule for O. sativa, whereas increase in nicotine dose promoted the growth of radicle and plumule, and increased percentage germination for Z. mays for some extent. This suggests that different plants actually react differently to nicotine. Contradicting studies about the effect of nicotine on plant growth have been reported so