Tobacco• Nicotine

–The addictive chemical in tobacco products

–Is a stimulant

• Stimulant- drugs that increase the activity of the nervous system

Types of Tobacco that is Smoked

• Cigarettes

–Decreases a person’s life expectancy by 10-12 years

• Cigars and Pipes

–Contain more nicotine than cigarette tobacco

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!!!

Smokeless Tobacco can Cause

Leukoplakia: Oral lesions that can turn into oral cancer

Gum Disease, Gum Recession, Tooth Decay, Yellowing of Teeth, and Cancer

Dipping 8 to 10 times a day can bring as much nicotine into

the body as smoking 30-40 cigarettes

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.

Other Dangerous Chemicals

• There are over 4,000 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

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