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Tobacco Kills More Americans Each Year Than Alcohol, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, Homicide, Suicide, Car Accidents, Fires and AIDS combined:
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What’s in Tobacco? 4000 Chemicals 40 Cancer causing agents 500 Poisons
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More addictive than cocaine and heroine Legal addiction
Nicotine Poisonous More addictive than cocaine and heroine Legal addiction Use results in emotional dependence Mood leveler Users rely on it to control emotional responses to everyday life
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Carbon Monoxide The compound in car exhaust that causes death
Causes shortness of breath Reduces the amount of oxygen blood can carry
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Tar Sticky Residue that stains the fingers and teeth.
Contains benzopyrene, one of the deadliest cancer causing agents known.
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Chemicals Acetone: fingernail polish remover
Ammonia: floor/toilet cleaner Cadmium: batteries Arsenic: rat poison Methane: cow manure fumes Formaldehyde: preserver of dead bodies
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Black and Mild (Cigars):
Made of pipe tobacco and contains more tobacco than cigarettes. Cigars are composed of tobacco that has been fermented. High levels of carcinogenic nitrosamines are produced during the fermentation process. Black & Mild contain more tobacco than cigarettes, they also contain more carcinogenic tar.
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Effects of Tobacco Use:
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Smokeless Tobacco: Chew, Snuff, plug, leaf, and dip are all forms of smokeless tobacco If you hold the average-sized dip in your mouth for 30 minutes you get as much nicotine as you would from 2-3 cigarettes Contains 28 cancer-causing chemicals One can of Copenhagen is equal to 3 packs of cigarettes Snuff dippers consume on average 10 times more cancer-causing substances (nitrosamines -- chemicals from the curing process) than cigarette smokers
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Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Use:
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