On December 20, 2019, with the enactment of the Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2020 signed by President Donald Trump, the federal smoking age was raised to 21 by changing the minimum purchase age in the 1992 Synar Amendment
And on social media sites like TikTok, the product is popular among so-called "zynfluencers" who document their use daily, tucking a pouch discreetly into their upper lip before school, work, or gym sessions, in the middle of sports games, while playing video games, and conducting taste-tests with friends
"This practice was not limited to Egyptian mummies but to numerous other European and Asian mummies, and it is plausibly this conservation technique that gave rise to the discovery of fragments of tobacco and nicotine in the mummy of Ramesses II and of nicotine in the drugged mummies of the Balabanova team." THC, meanwhile, is a little less controversial, with ancient Egyptians thought to use cannabis to treat bladder infections, eye pain, and potentially as a soothing enema
The leaves have the highest concentration of nicotine, which is brought up through the root
