1. Tobacco

2. What is the drug?
Tobacco leaves are harvested, dried, and processed in different ways for the variety of tobacco products
The drug is both a depressant and stimulant
Tobacco is a stimulant that produces a temporary increase of the functional activity of efficiency of an organism or any of its parts.
Tobacco is a depressant that lowers neurotransmission levels which is to depress or reduce arousal in various parts of the brain.

3. What are examples of the drug
Cigarette
Cigar
Hookah
Electronic cigarettes
Pipes
Smokeless tobacco: Chewing tobacco

4. Effects of the drug on the body
Short-term effects: Tar and toxins damage cilia, smoke quickly affects heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature
Long-term affects: Cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic bronchitis, asthma, etc.
Smoking can affect your skin, nose, liver, kidneys, brain, mouth, throat, lungs, and digestive system

5. Give an example of a legal and/or social issue associated with the drug
Second hand smoke
Legal age
Peer pressure

6. Additional info?
Benefits of quitting: Risks for many health problems are reduced, quitting increases quality of life

7. Is the drug addictive? Yes.
If you are a smoker, your brain is filled with nicotine receptors. When the nicotine unlocks the nicotine receptors, a feel-good chemical called dopamine is released, giving you a “hit” or “buzz”. However, this does not last long, the nicotine soon fades making the receptors eager for more.

8. Route of administration
Oral- most drugs are taken orally
Inhalation: smoking or huffing

9. Two examples of a drug in that category
Smoked tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, bidis, and kreteks.
People also smoke loose tobacco in a pipe or hookah.
Chewed tobacco products include chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, and sinus.

10. Two reasons why people use the drug
Social smoker
Peer pressure

11. Give 3 consequences of the drug
Increases anxiety
Cancer list
Nose, mouth, trachea, larynx, esophagus, throat, lungs, liver
Gum diseases