"... asthma cigarettes did not contain nicotine but a variety of herbs - the active ingredients of which were usually something from the nightshade family. Nightshades contain atropine - a drug which, importantly in asthma treatment, causes dilation of the small airways in the lungs and relief of symptoms. However it also causes dilated pupils, a rapid heart rate, nausea, confusion, dry mouth and hallucinations."
My brother had asthma since early childhood; he used an adrenalin atomizer for many years. In his late teens he smoked Asthmadors, a herbal cigarette which led him to tobacco. He died of lung-cancer at 59.
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Date: 2015-03-12 07:19 pm (UTC)"... asthma cigarettes did not contain nicotine but a variety of herbs - the active ingredients of which were usually something from the nightshade family. Nightshades contain atropine - a drug which, importantly in asthma treatment, causes dilation of the small airways in the lungs and relief of symptoms. However it also causes dilated pupils, a rapid heart rate, nausea, confusion, dry mouth and hallucinations."
From this page where you can read more.
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Date: 2015-03-12 07:44 pm (UTC)Thanks for the link!
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