1. Tobacco Kills
More people than ALL of the deaths from AIDS, alcohol, other drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires COMBINED!!!

2. Smokeless Tobacco
Smokeless tobacco is tobacco that is not smoked or burned
Chewing Tobacco- shredded, twisted, or "bricked" tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek and gum.
Snuff-fine-grain tobacco that often comes in teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip" between their lower lip and gum.
All smokeless tobacco causes the user to produce extra saliva, which they will spit out. This is why it is often called “spit tobacco”.

3. Smokeless Truths
Dangerous carcinogens in smokeless tobacco (there are more than 23!)
nitrosamines — These are the most powerful cancer-causing agents in smokeless tobacco.
polonium 210 — radioactive particles that turn into radon
formaldehyde — embalming fluid
cadmium — a metallic element; its salts are poisonous
arsenic — a metallic element which forms poisonous compounds
Smokeless tobacco contains more than 3,000 chemicals including NICOTINE. The problems with nicotine include:
Increased heart rate
Increased blood pressure
Addiction, withdrawal symptoms when not used

4. What are you doing to your body? Your skin-
The chemicals in tobacco dry out your skin and cause:
Premature aging and wrinkles by 10 to 20 years
Discoloration of the skin
Damage to the blood vessels

5. Your mouth: Your Teeth:
The thousands of chemicals in tobacco coat the mouth and can lead to:
Halitosis (bad breath)
Hairy tongue (reduces sense of taste)
Oral cancer (lip and mouth)
Your Teeth:
Stained teeth (from the tar)
Cavities
Gingivitis (irritation and swelling of the gums)
Periodontis (serious gum disease)

6. Your Lungs:
Chronic Bronchitis - Bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchial passages) that recurs and does not permanently go away.
EMPHYSEMA- Emphysema damages the alveoli. They become large and hard, and lose their ability to exchange air. With damaged air sacs, you cannot get enough air to breathe, and always feel that you cannot catch your breath. Emphysema has no cure and cannot be undone
LUNG CANCER- Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in both men and women. Smoking is the most common cause of this kind of cancer. Unfortunately, lung cancer is hard to cure.
Smokers also get more colds, coughs, flu, and other illnesses (Like pneumonia) due to their weaker immune system.

7. Cancer of the larnyx (voice box) Cancer of the esophagus
The thousands of chemicals in tobacco smoke line the passages of the nose when inhaled and can cause:
Decreased sense of smell
Decreased immunity (cilia bogged down with chemicals in smoke!)
Your nose
Your Throat:
Cancer of the larnyx (voice box)
Cancer of the esophagus

8. Did you know that smoking decreases the bodies ability to absorb calcium?
Your Bones:
Smoking weakens your bones, and this can cause you to develop a disease called osteoporosis as you grow older. Osteoporosis is when your bones become thin and brittle, and are more likely to break.
Smoking also impairs an athletes ability to perform as well. The chemicals in tobacco can cause a rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation and shortness of breath. Smoking also affects the body’s ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries like those to ligaments and tendons, heal more slowly in smokers.

9. Your Brain:
STROKE-
A stroke is a lack of blood flow to the brain, due to a blockage in a blood vessel or bursting of a blood vessel. Severe disability and even death can result from a stroke. Smoking cigarettes is related to high blood pressure and to hardening of the arteries, both of which can cause a stroke.
Did you know...
Smoking and mental health problems are linked to each other in complicated ways. Smokers have higher rates of several mental health problems -- including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and drug abuse -- than nonsmokers do.

10. Blood Vessels- Hypertension Heart Diseases- Your Heart
The poisons in cigarette smoke are carried everywhere the blood flows
The chemicals in tobacco smoke cause your blood vessels to constrict, or become narrow, which allows less blood through.
Blood Vessels-
The nicotine in tobacco is a stimulant drug that increases the heart rate and blood pressure leading to high blood pressure.
Hypertension
Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes blood vessels to become narrow, reducing the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Smoking can also lead to arteriosclerosis, which increases the risk of a heart attack.
Heart Diseases-

11. Digestive System Ulcers- Stomach Cancer Increased risk of colon cancer
An ulcer is a sore or hole in the stomach. Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes extra stomach acid to form. This extra acid can lead to an ulcer. Continued smoking can keep an ulcer from healing.
Stomach Cancer
The tar and other carcinogens in tobacco smoke can cause cancer of the stomach
Increased risk of colon cancer

12. If the mother is smoking during pregnancy,
the baby is smoking too!
The chemicals in tobacco smoke, specifically the nicotine and carbon monoxide, reduce the amount of oxygen and other nutrients the baby needs to grow and develop properly. Smoking during pregnancy can cause:
Smoking and
Miscarriage and Stillbirth (Pregnancy ends )
Preterm labor (Go into labor too early)
Low birth weight (Organs may be underdeveloped, especially the lungs)
Placental Problems
Pregnancy
Increased risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

13. Side stream smoke (the smoke that comes from the burning tip of a cigarette) contains more than 4,000 chemicals, including 200 known poisons and 43 carcinogens
Second hand
DANGERS
How is it dangerous to nonsmokers?
Nausea, headaches, dizziness
Trigger allergic reactions and asthma attacks
Cause emphysema , cancers, and heart diseases
This is why smoking is BANNED in public places!
Children of smokers have more colds, flu, middle ear infections, allergies and asthma than children of nonsmokers do!

14. Gingivitis and tooth loss
Addiction
Gingivitis and tooth loss
Leukoplakia
Mouth and Throat Cancers
DANGERS
High Blood Pressure
Ulcers
STROKE
Heart Attack