1. Smokeless Tobacco

2. What is smokeless tobacco?
Unburned tobacco which is placed into the mouth
Chewing tobacco
Dip
Snuff
Plug
Chaw

3. Types of smokeless tobacco:
Snuff- fine-grain tobacco that often comes in teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip" between their lower lip and gum.
Chewing tobacco- shredded, twisted, or "bricked" tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek and gum

4. What is in smokeless tobacco?
28 different chemicals—carcinogens
More nicotine in chewing tobacco than in cigarettes
Polonium 210 (nuclear waste)
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
Cadmium (used in car batteries)
Lead (nerve poison)
Nitrosamines (cancer causing substances)
Arsenic (rat poisoning)
Cyanide (poison)

5. Health Risks of Smokeless Tobacco
SHORT TERM
Increase heartbeat
Constricts blood vessels
Increase blood pressure
LONG TERM
Staining teeth
Recession and bleeding of gums
Mouth sores (70%)
Development of think white patches in mouth- LEUKOPLAKIA—WHICH CAN DEVELOP INTO CANCER
Hairy Tongue
Oral cancer, throat cancer

6. Leukoplakia
Only 50% of mouth cancer patients survive 5 years after their first diagnosis
precancerous sore (lesion) that develops on the tongue or the inside of the cheek in response to chronic irritation.

7. Hairy Tongue
Type of leukoplakia caused by bacteria and fungus

8. Effects of cancer from smokeless tobacco

9. Bill Tuttle