Sumitro, S.B., Zahar G.,  Yudi A., Aris M. W., Kumalaningsih, S., Permana, S., Widodo, Rurini, Rifai M., and Djoko, S.

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The Indonesian Cigarette which consists of mixing plant materials produces smoke with huge number of chemical compounds. These chemical compounds used non chemical bound to form particulate. They usually are exited and have highly electron density position. Introducing this smoke with some amino acids, polypeptides or any biological related materials will construct structures with unique architectures. An important question: Is this indicating some biological like potential characteristic of the smoke in regard to develop functional materials?

“It helps digestion, the gout, the toothache, prevents infection by scents; it heats the cold, and cools them that sweat, feedeth the hungry, spent spirits restoreth, purgeth the stomach, killeth nits and lice; the juice of the green leaf healeth green wounds, although poisoned; the syrup for many diseases; the smoke for the phthisic, cough of the lungs, distillations of rheum, and all diseases of a cold and moist cause; good for all bodies cold and moist taken upon an empty stomach; taken upon a full stomach it precipitates digestion.” John Josselyn on the medicinal uses of tobacco, 1675 (quoted in C.A. Weslager, Magic Medicines of the Indians, Signet, NY: 1974)

“Nicotine is an amazing chemical.” Jack Henningfield, 1998 (quoted in “Smoking Aside, Nicotine Remains an Amazing Chemical,” Scott Shane, The Seattle Times, 1/11/98, p. A10). Henningfield, apharmacologist at Johns Hopkins and former National Institute of Drug Abuse scientist, is also a consultant to SmithKline Beecham.