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Title: Smokeless Tobacco


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Smokeless Tobacco
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What is smokeless tobacco?
  • Unburned tobacco which is placed into the mouth
  • Chewing tobacco
  • Dip
  • Snuff
  • Plug
  • Chaw

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Types of smokeless tobacco
  • Snuff- fine-grain tobacco that often comes in
    teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip"
    between their lower lip and gum.
  • Chewing tobacco- shredded, twisted, or "bricked"
    tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek
    and gum

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What is in smokeless tobacco?
28 different chemicalscarcinogens More
nicotine in chewing tobacco than in cigarettes
  • Polonium 210 (nuclear waste)
  • Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
  • Cadmium (used in car batteries)
  • Lead (nerve poison)
  • Nitrosamines (cancer causing substances)
  • Arsenic (rat poisoning)
  • Cyanide (poison)

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Health Risks of Smokeless Tobacco
  • SHORT TERM
  • Increase heartbeat
  • Constricts blood vessels
  • Increase blood pressure
  • LONG TERM
  • Staining teeth
  • Recession and bleeding of gums
  • Mouth sores (70)
  • Development of think white patches in mouth-
    LEUKOPLAKIAWHICH CAN DEVELOP INTO CANCER
  • Hairy Tongue
  • Oral cancer, throat cancer

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Leukoplakia
Only 50 of mouth cancer patients survive 5
years after their first diagnosis
precancerous sore (lesion) that develops on the
tongue or the inside of the cheek in response to
chronic irritation.
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Hairy Tongue
Type of leukoplakia caused by bacteria and fungus
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Effects of cancer from smokeless tobacco
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Bill Tuttle
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