Healthy Caribbean Coalition - Tuesday 28th September Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados Public Lecture
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Tobacco The Burning Issues Explained -Dr. Leslie Rollock - Ministry of Health
Tobacco - the substance:-
- From leaves of tobacco plant
- Can be used as organic pesticide
- Extract (nicotine tartrate) used in some medicines
- Religious use among early native Americans
- Now mostly recreational use – smoked, chewed, snuffed, sucked/dipped