“…1 3 4 Women who use tobacco intravaginally have reported varied reasons for this practice, including enhancing sexual pleasure. [1][2][3][4][5] It is reported that it is being locally prescribed for intravaginal use by some vendors as traditional medicine, with the claim that it can cure a wide variety of illnesses, including epilepsy, hypertension, infertility, candidiasis, diabetes, arthritis, general body pain, fistula, hernia and bed wetting among children. 5 6 Some users in Zambia believe it can increase the CD4 T lymphocyte count (an indicator of the immune system's health) of patients with HIV/AIDS and can also be used to prevent respiratory infections including COVID-19.…”