The Philosophy of Tobacco

Historically, tobacco places within agriculture as a plant with unique medical capacities. From the position of recognizing the chemical found in the plant termed as 'nicotine' as one of the most potent substances in its matrix, the general knowledges surrounding its use are based in cooking and medicinal discipline. In cooking, tobacco is used for barbecue and spice culture. Within medicine, across an arrayed variance of intake and processual dynamics, tobacco is documented as being an herb that can affect hunger, habits, and is also recorded, in some instances, as being a plant which can give one a sense of being high. If one were to define tobacco, the wording could read as, “A green herb with elongated leaves formed from a stalk that is usually plucked of the leaves, so as to use them for cooking and medicine.” the leaves can be dried or used fresh, but the chemical purpose remains static across both methods of process.

Continuing on among the aforewritten methodological throes described above is how the plant can affect the body. From sensory highs to hunger patterns, and along an analogous axis of narrative liken unto that outlined in the “The Philosophy of Marijuana”, the impact that tobacco has on immunology and immunological environments is contingent upon the form of intake as well as the period of use.

As a combusted plant, the nicotine present within the dried and fired leaf matter gradually alters the hunger patterns of the ingesting human identity. The variance spans an array of implicate dynamics, but, typically, waning away from wholesome foods naturally results, and not having a stomach for a whole and healthy diet manifests. The literal ability to take in nutrition changes drastically over long periods of time. The extent to which the combusted tobacco plant affects both the general and digestive biomes of the body is also contingent upon the method of combusted intake. The amount of plant used, the amount of combusted matter taken into the body, and the length of use during the different periods of 'smoking' all have an impact that gradually changes at different degrees during the course of the plants combusted use. Beginning with the initial use, the physiological and morphological impact of smoking the plant gravitates along an axis that begins with cravings and slight changes in dietary habit to the ability to only ingest easily digestible foods like small, soft sweets and baked goods as well as bread. As a combusted substance, there is a means by which to smoke the plant at higher levels of sustainability, but over a time, the effects still measure the same, by variant analogous capacities, to what has been described above.

When eaten as a cooking ingredient, the effect is drastically different. Though the plant can still be smoked like one would a meat, the actual use of the herb as a cooking ingredient serves in the way of counterbalancing what would otherwise be the relegated capacity of death and immunological inhibition conducted by actually smoking the substance. Placed within meats as a dry rub, sauce, spice agent, or flavoring component, tobacco serves its intercombinative chemical matrix in different arrays than what would otherwise be seen in other methods of ingestion. When used as a cooking ingredient for plants, the dynamic remains the same. Mixed with other greens and herbivorous plants, tobacco stems away from being a carcinogen and moves toward a simple item of flavor and health. The use, in this context, would not break into finities of immunological contextualization, else it be understood as a cultural staple that would evolve in definition over long periods of time.

Holist philosophy seats the above in the throe of understanding how it is, then, that the plant is used for different purposes and compounding those dimensionalities in the array of interpretable, governant scapes. From the point of initial intake into an immunological environment, well on into the cultivariate throes of continual and habitual use, the tobacco plant operates fundamentally on nicotine as its central chemical agent. The compound is one that excites neurology by the same token that the dichotomous effect had on the body is able to be wroughtly and rawly individuated along the transaxial comparison found between 'combusting and smoking' as intake and 'cooking', or preparing, the same. Theoretically, the environment can only stand one outside of strict disciplined finities that would allow for either to be plausible forms of ingestion. Smoking anything is not sustainable for the human body, so cooking, as the natural corresponding counterpart comes to suffice as the inevitable conclusion to understanding the implicate, philosophical backdrop had in directly implementing tobacco, as a plant, holistically in an environment that is able to sustain its use within cyclical fundamentality.