Priority is placed on developing capacity for culturally tailored tobacco treatment
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Dried tobacco leaves are used in many forms such as smoking in cigarettes, cigars, bidis, and electric cigarettes, chewing tobacco in the form of Gutka and chunna, dipping tobacco, and snus (a powder which is kept between lower lip and gums)
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It is well known that nicotine, as an agonist of nAChR found in the central and peripheral nervous system, muscle, and many other tissues of many organisms (17), stimulates the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signaling anti-inflammatory pathway to reduce inflammatory responses, depression, attention deficithyperactivity disorder, cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, Alzheimers disease, and pain (18)