[115] Like tea, coffee and opium, tobacco was just one of many intoxicants that was originally used as a form of medicine
Specifically, for each brands website, we coded whether there was information on nicotine concentration (recorded if a numerical value was provided such as 5% nicotine), nicotine form (free-base, nicotine salts, or not stated), and nicotine type (tobacco-derived, synthetically derived, or not stated)
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With tobacco firms under pressure from health groups in developed economies and increasingly popular electronic cigarettes, a merger of this size would help them consolidate costs and resist competition from Asia, analysts say