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Tar is the material produced by burning tobacco. It can damage lungs & cause cancer. It is also found in marijuana cigarettes. Nicotine is an alkaloid from plants of the nightshade family. It acts as a stimulant, which leads to addiction. In brief: Tar/Nicotine. Tar is the material produced by burning tobacco. It can damage lungs & cause cancer. It is also found in marijuana cigarettes. Nicotine is an alkaloid from plants of the nightshade family.
In large amounts, nicotine can be poisonous. Cotinine is usually the test of choice to evaluate tobacco use or exposure to tobacco smoke because it is stable and is only produced when nicotine is metabolized. Cotinine has a half-life in the body of between 7 and 40 hours, while nicotine has a half-life of 1 to 4 hours.