Nicotine

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue: The Buzz
2. Chapter One - The Leaf and the Smoke
3. Chapter Two - Empire’s Favorite Plant
4. Chapter Three - Nicotine in a Lab Coat
5. Chapter Four - The Cigarette Century
6. Chapter Five - Smoke and Mirrors
7. Chapter Six - Nicotine Goes Corporate
8. Chapter Seven - The Vape Escape
9. Chapter Eight - The Pouch Era
10. Chapter Nine - The Brain Game
11. Chapter Ten - Freedom or Cycle
12. Chapter Eleven - Smoke Signal to the Future
13. Chapter Twelve - The Last Puff

Excerpt

PROLOGUE: THE BUZZ YOU NEVER FORGET the first hit. Maybe it was a cigarette behind a gas station. A vape cloud in the back of someone’s car. A dip at a bonfire. A Zyn that made your eyebrows sweat. Whatever it was — it hit. Fast. Sharp. Like someone flipped a dopamine switch in your skull and your spine went, ohhhhhh okay. That was nicotine. That was the buzz. And chances are, you chased it again. But here’s the thing they don’t tell you in school (besides literally everything): Nicotine isn’t just a chemical. It’s a story. A ritual. A survival mechanism that got hijacked, repackaged, and sold back to us with mint flavoring and a surgeon general’s side-eye. It’s older than Jesus. More...