What is specifically in tobbacco that makes people throw up when they swallow it?

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I know you can swallow saliva from nicotine salt pouches, but why does tobbacco saliva make you vomit?

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Ok, starting again as I was way off base! Did some reading and I get it now.

Tobacco leaves contain naturally occurring nicotine as a pesticide. The amount ingested by smoking or swallowing a small amount from a nicotine pouch may make you sick or nauseous, but won’t harm you. But swallowing tobacco leaves means you’re ingesting a much larger dose of nicotine, which is poisonous* Hence the vomiting and risk of death.

**everything is poisonous in the right quantity*

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