How much nicotine is in a regular cigarette?

Understanding how much absorbed nicotine is in one cigarette, will provide smokers with a baseline for understanding how much nicotine would be required from an alternate source. In a study by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, they found the bioavailability of nicotine in the human body from smoking tobacco to be between 10 and 40 percent. read more

The Facts. The average cigarette in the United States contains about 9mg of nicotine. However, this is not the amount of nicotine that is ingested by the smoker. read more

It should be noted that a regular pack of cigarettes contains 8 to 20 milligrams of nicotine and from that only 1 mg is absorbed when it is smoked. Now on a smaller scale, this means from every cigarette stub containing approximately 1.2 mg of nicotine, the smoker will absorb around 0.1 mg of nicotine from it. read more

UCLA psychiatry professor Arthur Brody says there are 0.6-1.0 mg of nicotine in “light” cigarettes, and 1.2-1.4 in regular smokes. It seems like quite a difference, but it may not matter. That’s because other factors account for a big part of a cigarette’s powerful nicotine delivery. read more