This book provides for the first time a single comprehensive source of information on the analytical chemistry
of nicotine and related alkaloids. The editors have brought together scientists from academia and the tobacco industry
to describe the state-of-the-art of the chemistry and analytical methods for measurement of nicotine. Both the
scope and detail of the book are impressive. Chapters describe the history, pharmacology and toxicology of nicotine,
the biosynthesis of nicotine and other alkaloids in the tobacco plant, the general chemistry of nicotine and the
analytical methodologies that have been used to measure nicotine and related alkaloids in biological specimens,
in tobacco and pharmaceutical products and in tobacco smoke. There is also a comprehensive review of the chemistry
and toxicology of nicotine-derived nitrosamines, an important class of tobacco carcinogens.