Tobacco

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Tobacco

• Nicotine
• The addictive chemical in tobacco products
• Is a stimulant
• Stimulant- drugs that increase the activity of
  the nervous system

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Types of Tobacco that is Smoked

• Cigarettes
• Decreases a persons life expectancy by 10-12
  years
• Cigars and Pipes
• Contain more nicotine than cigarette tobacco

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Side Effects of Smoking

• Shortness of breath
• Nausea
• Dizziness
• Greater risk of injury and slower healing time
• Increases heart rate
• Reduces blood flow to the skin
• Increases bowel activity
• Mouth sores
• Cracked lips

• Causes breathing to become more shallow
• Heart disease
• Damage to respiratory system
• Narrowing of blood vessels
• Stroke
• Bad breath
• Bad skin
• Discolored teeth

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Fact or Fiction?

• Low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes are safer
  than regular cigarettes
• Fiction Although the amount of tar and nicotine
  in these cigarettes may be reduced, carbon
  monoxide levels are not. Also, smokers tend to
  smoke more of these cigarettes and inhale more
  deeply in order to feel the same effects as they
  felt from regular cigarettes.

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Other Dangerous Chemicals

• There are over 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke
• Tar
• The dark, sticky substance that forms when
  tobacco burns
• Chemical that increases risk of lung cancer
• Carbon Monoxide
• Odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco is
  burned
• Causes breathing and heart rate to increase

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Secondhand Smoke Smoke give off by a burning
cigarette

• Mainstream smoke
• what the smoker inhales and exhales

• Sidestream smoke
• Smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar,
  or pipe
• 20-100 times mores toxic because its not filtered
  by smokers lungs

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Smokeless Tobacco tobacco that is chewed, place
between the lower lip and teeth, or sniffed
through the nose

• Even though it does not harm the lungs like
  smoked tobacco, it is still not safe!!!

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Smokeless Tobacco can Cause

• Leukoplakia Oral lesions that can turn into
  oral cancer

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Gum Disease, Gum Recession, Tooth Decay,
Yellowing of Teeth, and Cancer
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Dipping 8 to 10 times a day can bring as much
nicotine into the body as smoking 30-40
cigarettes