1. Tobacco Nicotine The addictive chemical in tobacco products
Is a stimulant
Stimulant- drugs that increase the activity of the nervous system

2. Types of Tobacco that is Smoked
Cigarettes
Decreases a person’s life expectancy by an average of 14 years
Cigars and Pipes
Contain more nicotine than cigarette tobacco

3. Side Effects of Smoking
Shortness of breath
Nausea
Dizziness
Greater risk of injury and slower healing time
Increases heart rate
Reduces blood flow to the skin
Increases bowel activity
Mouth sores
Cracked lips
Causes breathing to become more shallow
Heart disease
Damage to respiratory system
Narrowing of blood vessels
Stroke
Bad breath
Bad skin
Discolored teeth

4. 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.

5. Other Dangerous Chemicals
There are over 7,000 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

6. 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
times mores toxic because its not filtered by smokers lungs

7. 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!!!

8. Smokeless Tobacco can Cause
Leukoplakia: Oral lesions that can turn into oral cancer

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

10. Dipping 8 to 10 times a day can bring as much nicotine into the body as smoking 30-40 cigarettes