1. Tobacco What is it What does it look like?
Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that gets you high. Nicotine is a STIMULANT drug (speeds up the CNS).
What does it look like?
Dried greenish brown leaves

2. How does it enter your body?
Absorbed by skin
Chewing tobacco
Snuff
Nicotine patch
Smoked
Cigarette (tobacco rolled in paper)
Cigar (tobacco rolled in tobacco leaf)
Pipe (tobacco packed into the bowl of a pipe)
Hookah

3. Is it addicting? What is in it? Can you overdose? Is it legal?
Nicotine (gets you high and addicts you)
4,000+ chemicals (52 known carcinogens)
Tar (increases risk of lung cancer)
Is it addicting?
YES! Both physically and psychologically addicting.
Can you overdose?
VERY rare
Is it legal?
Yes…if you are over the age 18.
How long does your high last?
Nicotine remains active in your system for approximately minutes