Smokeless Tobacco A Rising Trend with Today ’s Youth By July 3‚ 2001 Abstract The consumption of tobacco is probably the most harmful thing you can do to your body and health. Most people that consume tobacco do so in the form of a cigarette‚ but lately there has been another form of tobacco that is cause for concern among younger age groups: smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco contains the same addictive nicotine found in a cigarette but it is chewed rather than smoked. The tobacco
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Tobacco has remained to be the most used drug all over the world. People who consume tobacco have no idea of what goes into their body or what health problems they might have in the future. The most common health problem is cancer. Tobacco is an American plant which is a member of the nightshade family. Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana . It has remained an important
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English 231c The Effects of Smokeless Tobacco on Oral Health According to the Oral Cancer Foundation‚ about 42‚000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year due to the use of smokeless tobacco. This product will cause over 8‚000 deaths‚ killing roughly one person per hour‚ 24 hours per day. Of those 42‚000 newly diagnosed individuals‚ only slightly more than half will be alive in five years. This is a number‚ which has not significantly improved in decades. The death
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Smokeless Was Never Harmless “The more you chew‚ the more lip you lose.” -Anonymous. The American Cancer Society (ACS) shares that spit or smokeless tobacco is a less lethal‚ but still unsafe‚ alternative to smoking. No form of smokeless tobacco is a safe substitute for cigarettes. Still‚ tobacco companies often market these products as alternatives to smoking in places where smoking is not allowed (Smokeless). Many uniformed consumers of smokeless tobacco‚ including my boyfriend seem to believe
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2013 "Smokeless" Tobacco "You don ’t smoke it. You don ’t swallow it. All you do is slosh it around your mouth and spit out the brown juices every few seconds" (Bellenir 79). Let ’s explore the topic smokeless tobacco (ST)‚ more commonly known as chewing tobacco‚ spitting tobacco‚ chew‚ snuff‚ dip‚ or spit. Smokeless tobacco comes in two forms: chewing tobacco or snuff ("Top Facts: Spit / Smokeless Tobacco"). My curiosity about chewing tobacco was originally about the harmful side effects that this
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Caudell English 9 Block 2 Research Paper 12/6/13 Smokeless Tobacco VS Cigarettes Smokeless tobacco‚ also known as dip and chewing tobacco‚ is tobacco that you put in your lip. Most of the people that use smokeless tobacco start at a young age. Then you have cigarettes that are nearly twice as harmful to your body. The smoking of tobacco gives you a better chance at getting cancer in your lungs and mouth. That is why smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative but safer that smoking.
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pleasure‚ smokeless tobacco came to the fore front of health news at the turn of the millennium due to increasing evidence that it is just as dangerous as cigarette smoking. In fact‚ most medical professionals now agree that smokeless tobacco--also known as "chaw" or "chew"--is equally addictive and carcinogenic‚ and have come to consider the substance as contributing to the U.S. tobacco epidemic. Despite the medical community’s efforts to warn people beginning in the mid-1980s‚ the use of smokeless tobacco
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Introduction Once considered a glamorous and sophisticated habit‚ smoking is now viewed with increasing disapproval. The recognition of the health risks of smoking is a primary cause of this change in public opinion‚ and it has led to significant changes in the behavior of many Americans. Over the past four decades‚ the proportion of cigarette smoking among adults in the United States has dropped 30%. Private businesses and all levels of government have jumped on the nonsmoking bandwagon. Almost
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The Negative Effects of Tobacco The nicotine can be consumed by chewing tobacco apart from smoking and sniffing .The article provides insight into the hazards of chewing tobacco . If you believe that only smoking is injurious‚ certainly not. Any form of nicotine consumption is injurious. Tobacco is bad for health‚ no matter in what form you take it the ill effects are always there. Tobacco are leaves of plant that are used in dried form‚ they are high in nicotine and consequently addictive in nature
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History[edit] Concern about health effects of tobacco has a long history. Gideon Lincecum‚ an American naturalist and practitioner of botanical medicine‚ wrote in the early 19th century on tobacco: "This poisonous plant has been used a great deal as a medicine by the old school faculty‚ and thousands have been slain by it. ... It is a very dangerous article‚ and use it as you will‚ it always diminishes the vital energies in exact proportion to the quantity used - it may be slowly‚ but it is very
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