1. Tobacco Addiction By: Jose Vega

2. What is Tobacco Addiction? When people are addicted, they have a complusive need to seek out and use a substance even when they understand the harm it can cause. Tobacco products-cigarettes, cigars or pipes and smokeless tobacco-all can lead to addiction. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, and most people that do it want to quit. Fact is that nearly 35 millon people try to quit each year, but eventually they relapse.

3. What happens when someone uses tobacco for long periods of time? Long-term use of nicotine frequently leads to addiction. Research is just beginning to document all of the changes in the brain that accompany nicotine addiction. The way that nicontine is absorbed and metabolized by the body enhances its addictive potential. Each inhalation brings a rapid distrubution of nicotine to the brain peaking within 10 seconds and then the disappearing quickly, along with the associated pleasureable feelings.

4. Tobacco Use Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

5. What happens when you smoke tobacco? When smoking tobacco, the user inhales tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and 200 known poisons into the lungs. The nicotine in cigarettes is powerfully addictive. All forms of tobacco, including cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco, contain the addictive drug nicotine and can also cause cancer. Like cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, nicotine increases levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which affects the brain pathways that control reward and pleasure. For many tobacco users, long-term brain changes induced by continued nicotine exposure result in addiction — a condition of compulsive drug seeking and use, even in the face of negative consequences.

6. Risks!! Shortness of breath and dizziness / Lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema / Heart disease, including stroke, heart attack, vascular disease, and aneurysm (burst blood vessel)/ Lung, mouth, throat, bladder, pancreas and kidney cancer / Dry skin and premature wrinkles.

8. The Health Triangle Physcal:If you smoke and play sports you won't be able to run as fast as others. Mental:Some say they make them feel happier. Social:By the smell of what they have been smoking nobody wants to be around them any more.

9. How Tobacco Affected! Mouth and Lip Cancer. Throat Cancer Smoking Cause heart diseases