WHAT IS TOBACCO?
- Tobacco comes from a plant and contains the
stimulant drug, nicotine.
- It is usually smoked in cigarettes,
cigars and pipes, but is also found in a powdered form called snuff
(to be sniffed up the nose) and as chewing tobacco or dip.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS
OF SMOKING?
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Smoking kills more
than 400,000 Americans each year.
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More than 3,000
kids become regular smokers each day.
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Smokers lose an
average of 12 years of life due to their habit.
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The chemical
nicotine found in cigarettes and other tobacco products is an
addictive drug, which is why it is so hard for people to quit using
tobacco once they start. Nicotine is also a deadly poison used in
many bug sprays. It is so potent that one drop (70 mg) in its liquid
form will kill an average adult.
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Smoking turns your
teeth and fingernails yellow, makes your hair, clothes and breath
smell gross and causes premature wrinkling of your skin.
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With every puff on
a cigarette, you breathe 4,700 different chemicals, including ammonia,
arsenic, cyanide, acetone, formaldehyde, toluene (a poisonous
industrial solvent) polonium 210 (a highly radioactive element) and
carbon monoxide.
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Lung cancer, throat
cancer, heart disease, stroke and emphysema are just some of the
painful, life-threatening diseases linked with smoking.
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90% of men smokers
are age 18 and younger. The average smoker starts at age 12, and is
addicted to nicotine by age 13 or 14.
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Teen smokers are
three times more likely to use alcohol, 8 times more likely to use
marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine than non-smokers.
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