Why do cigarettes make you poop? I know they are a dietretic, but why physiologically, do they make you poop exactly? Thanks in advance!

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Federico Sawady · Answer 1 · 2017-03-18T19:06:35+0000

Indeed, nicotine, among many other metabolic effects, that is to accelerate the digestive transit by increase of peristalsis. And it is this same mechanism (peristalsis) allowing the progress of food from the mouth (specifically the pharynx) to the rectum (anus).

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