Tobacco: Dangerous from the Start

What is in a tobacco product? Tobacco is a plant. (Nicotine-makes it addictive.) Additives are the chemicals that help keep the tobacco moist, help it burn longer and taste better. Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemicals. Some are: Benzene-known to cause cancer, tar, carbon monoxide (starves the body of oxygen), ammonia, cyanide (found in rat poison).

Early Effects of Smoking Nicotine is a highly addictive drug that occurs naturally in the leaves of the tobacco plant. Nicotine travels through the blood and raises heart rate and blood pressure. Skin, breath, hair and clothing will immediately smell of smoke. Feel nauseated and dizzy when you start smoking. Lose sense of smell and taste. Shortness of breath and coughing. Smokers are sick more often.

Types of Tobacco Products Chew Snuff Snus Cigars Bidis Pipe Cigarettes

Smokers are not the only ones harmed by smoking. 1. Second hand smoke-Is as dangerous as smoking itself. Passive smokers are at risk for the same health problems that smokers are. 2. Emotional-watching loved ones suffer. 3. Financially-cost of cigarettes, healthcare. 4. They make you smell bad. Affects amount of family time.