The Negative Effects of Chewing Tobacco
Taylor Roberts
Granbery
English 10
January 30, 2012
The Effects of Chewing Tobacco Every year in America, there are approximately 146,023 people who chew tobacco that end up with cancer, according to mylastdip.com, a website committed to informing people of chewing tobacco. Those cancers include lip, mouth, throat, stomach, esophagus, pancreas, lung, trachea, and lastly, cancer of the bronchus. Chewing tobacco, also known as smokeless tobacco, is a term used to describe tobacco that is not burned or smoked. “Chewing tobacco is cut-leaf tobacco that must be chewed in order to get the flavor and nicotine. Chewing tobacco is sold loose in foil pouches or as plugs or twists,” says a reporter from mylastdip.com.
Chewing tobacco includes the following ingredients:
Nicotine — addictive drug, insecticide
Formaldehyde — embalming fluid
Polonium 210 — nuclear waste
Lead — nerve poison
Hydrocarbons — car exhaust
Cadmium — battery chemical
Coumarin — a rat poison
These all are harmful to the human body and
There are two types of chewing tobacco, snuff and snus. Snuff is a finely grounded tobacco that is placed in the mouth between the cheek and the gum. Snus is a tobacco powder that is moist and is placed on the upper or lower lip. Both snuff and snus are placed in the mouth. “Smokeless tobacco has been around for over four hundred years, and was first used by American Indians and was used as a medicine for sickness’, such as a headache or cough,” reported www.tobacco.com. “By the early 1700’s, chewing tobacco had been growing all over the world, especially in the Americas.” By the 1800’s, smokeless tobacco was the most used form of tobacco used in America, until the 1900’s when the mass production of cigarettes came around. Who uses tobacco? It’s a reported 3.3% (8.6 million) of people in the United States aged twelve and older use smokeless tobacco. There is an estimated 8% of American high school students that use smokeless tobacco. More men use
Granbery
English 10
January 30, 2012
The Effects of Chewing Tobacco Every year in America, there are approximately 146,023 people who chew tobacco that end up with cancer, according to mylastdip.com, a website committed to informing people of chewing tobacco. Those cancers include lip, mouth, throat, stomach, esophagus, pancreas, lung, trachea, and lastly, cancer of the bronchus. Chewing tobacco, also known as smokeless tobacco, is a term used to describe tobacco that is not burned or smoked. “Chewing tobacco is cut-leaf tobacco that must be chewed in order to get the flavor and nicotine. Chewing tobacco is sold loose in foil pouches or as plugs or twists,” says a reporter from mylastdip.com.
Chewing tobacco includes the following ingredients:
Nicotine — addictive drug, insecticide
Formaldehyde — embalming fluid
Polonium 210 — nuclear waste
Lead — nerve poison
Hydrocarbons — car exhaust
Cadmium — battery chemical
Coumarin — a rat poison
These all are harmful to the human body and
There are two types of chewing tobacco, snuff and snus. Snuff is a finely grounded tobacco that is placed in the mouth between the cheek and the gum. Snus is a tobacco powder that is moist and is placed on the upper or lower lip. Both snuff and snus are placed in the mouth. “Smokeless tobacco has been around for over four hundred years, and was first used by American Indians and was used as a medicine for sickness’, such as a headache or cough,” reported www.tobacco.com. “By the early 1700’s, chewing tobacco had been growing all over the world, especially in the Americas.” By the 1800’s, smokeless tobacco was the most used form of tobacco used in America, until the 1900’s when the mass production of cigarettes came around. Who uses tobacco? It’s a reported 3.3% (8.6 million) of people in the United States aged twelve and older use smokeless tobacco. There is an estimated 8% of American high school students that use smokeless tobacco. More men use