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MICDS Newsletter Date Volume 1, Issue 1

Chewing Tobacco Emphysema– a chronic lung disease involving damage to the lung air sacs which effects breathing Tobacco- leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

What is in the Cigarette smoke?

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals in it, of which 60% is suspected to cause cancer Cigarette smoke contains nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT

Smoking Tobacco, The Facts On any Cigarette box there is always a warning that can be found. Warnings like “Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health”, or a more informative warning such as “Smoking causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy”. Although these warning are nice to have on a box, they are usually very small so that the user would have to look very closely to read it.

Cigarettes affect a users lungs, Bones or skeletal system, Nervous System, Female reproductive system, Male Reproductive System, Immune System, Skin, the Senses, Circulatory System, and the users Mental Health. Cigarettes

contain a substance called Nicotine, this is the substance that makes cigarettes addictive to the user.

When a person smokes, Nicotine reaches the brain in 10-20 seconds. After the nicotine reaches the brain a chemical called dopamine is released. Dopamine provides a short pleasure for the user.

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Smoking tobacco is

Second Hand Smoke Second hand smoke is a mixture of two forms of smoke “Sidestream smoke” (smoke that comes from the end of a lighted Cigarette, or pipe), and “Mainstream smoke” (smoke that is ex-

haled through the mouth of the smoker). Non-smokers who inhale second hand smoke are taking toxic chemicals like Nicotine just like the users are. The American Heart Association estimates that about

40,000 people die annually from second hand smoke.

MICDS Newsletter Date Volume 1, Issue 1

Chewing Tobacco Health

Leukoplakia– white sores in the mouth that become cancer Receding Gums– gums slowly shrink from around the teeth

Tobacco Companies sell non-smoking or chewing tobacco to get around the law that bans smoking tobacco in some places. The companies use slogans or advertisement logo’s such as “Anytime. Anywhere”, or “No Smoking, No problem”. These slogans are meant to advertise the use of tobacco in areas that smoking tobacco is not allowed. A user of this product has a chance of getting: oral and throat cancer, cancer in the esophagus, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, increase risk of heart disease, heart attacks, and strokes, addiction to nicotine, Leukoplakia, receding gums, bone loss around the roots of the teeth, Abrasion

of teeth, tooth loss, stained teeth, and bad breath. The 2007 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 3% of adults aged 26 and older were still using smokeless tobacco and about 5% of people were still using smokeless tobacco. They also showed that 13% of male high school student were using http://www.manufacturertobacco.com/images/7.jpg this product and the 2% of female high scholars were using it. According to tors liked to the use of Cancer.gov peer pressure, these product by young local lifestyles and fashpeople. Smokeless tobacco ions, general attitudes tomay not be as bad for the ward authority, economic user as Cigarettes but this conditions, examples set product is still deadly. by teachers and school stuff, presence of gangs, and use of illegal drugs and alcohol were all main fac-

Nicotine Nicotine is an addictive drug. Nicotine is the ingredient or chemical in both non-smoking and smoking tobacco that make it addictive to the user. Nicotine causes a short increase in blood pressure, heart rate,

and the flow of blood to the heart. It can also cause the users arteries to narrow. It also cause bad withdraw symptoms such as: anxiety, depressed mood, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, decrease heart rate,

and hostility.

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Chewing Tobacco

Which is worse?

Either smoking or non-smoking tobacco is better for you than that of tobacco bacco, tobacco is harmful to the user that is smokes in a pipe, or in the form of a and can also lead to death. According cigarette. to the Center for Disease Control 46 million Americans smoke, and of them 419,000 die annually from smoking related causes, this number is way less for non-smoking tobacco users.

On a table of 46 million smokers and the same number of non-smokers, the deaths related to tobacco for smokers were 70 times greater than the deaths of non-smoking tobacco users. The Center for Disease Control estimated that for a non-smoking form of Tobacco user, only 8 days is taken off there life, and for a cigarette smoker 8 years is taken off there life. Nonsmoking tobacco doest produce any second hand smoke, which mean that the user is not harming anyone around him, other then the user. Studies show that the intake of non-smoking to-

The Switch from Smoking to Non-Smoking Tobacco It is reported that the switch from smoking cigarettes to a form of nonsmoking cigarettes is an affective way to stop smoking. The switch or transition is possible because the tobacco user is getting his “spike� of nicotine

from the chewing tobacco rather than the cigarettes.

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