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You visit the planet Htrae, where every compound is the mirror image of the corresponding compound on Earth. You are addicted to nicotine, but NASA has banned smoking on its flights, and you forgot to pack some Nicorette gum, so you arrive needing a cigarette, bad. The locals offer you a cigarette made from locally grown tobacco. Will the hit of nicotine from the cigarette make you feel much better, much worse, about the same, or is it not possible to predict? And will the cigarette be more carcinogenic, less carcinogenic, about the same, or is it not possible to predict? The structures of the main addictive and carcinogenic substances in cigarettes are shown in the Figures.

Explanation / Answer

The nicoten taken is physiologically less active and less toxic.

The hit of nicotine will make feel less better.

The carcinogenity will be of same level since the molecule is planar.

The

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