Originally Posted By: Prometheus
 Originally Posted By: Captain Sweden
There is nicotine in tobacco naturally, and I'm pretty sure addiction of tobacco has been reported long before the big companies got resources to add various chemicals in cigarettes.


Not to any significant amounts, and certainly not to the levels with modern cigarettes. Personally, I have never heard of any case documented before Big Tobacco that found naturally grown tobacco chemically addictive.


in all fairness, 'before Big Tobacco™' isn't exactly a preposition that will hold up to the rigors of historiographic scrutiny - especially considering that the phrase BIG TOBACCO™ is invariably used as a grossly overgeneralized pejorative. tobacco products have been cultivated and refined for commercial use for literally centuries. also, concentrations of nicotine can't be that negligible if the substance was noticeable enough to derive its name from the genus Nicotiana back when it was first isolated way back in the late 1820s (and immediately categorized as an addictive toxin). seriously, the leaves have a high enough concentration of nicotine to render them unpalatable to numerous animals that otherwise wouldn't hesitate to nom on them. not trying to argue with any of your points, but you're definitely smart enough that you know not to neglect even minor fact-checking excursions.

 Originally Posted By: Prometheus
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Also, marijuana is often blended with tobacco if I'm not mistaken, but that may be beside the point.


That's up to the smoker. A joint is normally rolled up in rolling papers. A blunt is when someone uses a cigar wrapper instead. I'm sure somewhere in the world someone mixes dried tobacco in with their weed. But, that's not a constant that can be measured...


all bets are off when you roll your own. or at least that's what an individual in the know who may or may not be my fiancée told me. there are so many different varieties of ganja out there, and so many ways it's harvested and processed (sometimes including additives that would make BIG TOBACCO™ blush), and so many different ways it's used, that it's damn near impossible to give a standard chemical composition for cannabis sativa in the form in which you actually smoke it.