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Smoking causes two types of addiction: mental and physical. In order to concentrate attention on mental aspect, smokers are offered nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) which gives a little dose of nicotine to the body helping to fight withdrawal symptoms.

Alopecia is a Latin word and a general medical term that can mean either total baldness or different degrees of hair loss. Alopecia can affect people of both genders at any age, but most commonly in occurs in men and women in their mid-40s.

While in the New World, especially in the Mayan civilization, tobacco was considered a sacred substance of the Gods, in Spain of the 17th century is was not welcomed at all. By Order of Pope Urban VIII, excommunication was a punishment for smoking or snuffing tobacco in any Christian church of Spain. Pope Innocent X banned using tobacco snuffs in the Basilica of St. Peter in 1650.

Few plants in the history of the world have such complex and contradictory relationships with humans as tobacco. The tobacco plant is undoubtedly responsible for our addictive behaviour, shortened lives, and highly negative financial and medical consequences for the human societies all over the planet.