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It's Not Cool To Use Tobacco: Speaking Out Against Smoking. (Harmful Substances).
When Lauren Minor was 11 years old, she went to Washington, D.C., to talk to members of Congress. The House of Representatives was considering a law that would ban smoking in public places. Lauren has asthma, a disease that can make breathing difficult. She told the members of Congress how hard it is for people with asthma to be anyplace where people smoke.
Tobacco Smoke
Tobacco smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes hurts everyone who is around it. It hurts the person who is smoking the most, but it also hurts other adults and children who just breathe the smoke without touching the cigarette, cigar or pipe. The smoke can even hurt babies before they are born.
Tobacco smoke contain many chemicals, including nicotine, a drug that speeds up the heart so that it needs more oxygen. But the heart can't get the extra oxygen it needs because the smoke also hurts the lungs. The tiny air sacs in the lungs, through which oxygen passes into the blood (see diagram on page 3), are damaged by tobacco smoke. The lungs can't do their job as well. When a person has smoked for a long time, the tiny air sacs in his or her lungs can be hurt ...
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...symptoms were worse with smokeless tobacco. The cancer-causing chemicals in smokeless tobacco are just as deadly as those in tobacco smoke. Since the "quid...enter the body. Using smokeless tobacco dramatically increases...
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U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC...does not produce tobacco smoke that causes discomfort...relative health risk of smokeless tobacco as compared to cigarettes...any advertising for smokeless tobacco advocating that adult...
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- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) February 19, 2007 700+ words
...jump into the (smokeless tobacco) market, and that...definite perception of smokeless tobacco being safer than...burning and inhaling tobacco smoke," he said...said. He calls smokeless tobacco vastly preferable...
- Smokeless tobacco.
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...black letters, the poster said," Smokeless Tobacco Can Do for you What It Did for Sean...use more widely known. Sean used smokeless tobacco for six years, until he was diagnosed...1984. Chemicals in the Bloodsteam Smokeless tobacco usually means either snuff, which...
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- Clinical Reference Systems January 1, 2006 700+ words
What is smokeless tobacco? Smokeless tobacco includes chewing tobacco, snuff, quid, chaw, plug...cheeks and gums, or may be sniffed through the nose. Smokeless tobacco is sometimes called spit or spitting tobacco because...
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- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) October 16, 2003 700+ words
...Tennessee that is used in manufacturing smokeless tobacco products. As many residents of these...competition. Indeed, the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) buys only 100 percent...leaf. But the differences between smokeless tobacco and cigarettes go beyond the farm...
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The use of smokeless tobacco has increased over the past...States (Shoplands, 1997). Yet smokeless tobacco is a hazardous substance: used...Wagner, & Woody, 1995). Smokeless tobacco use also increases the risks...
- Smokeless tobacco use by youth in the U.S.
- Magazine article from: Journal of School Health Boyd, Gayle M. Glover, Elbert D. May 1, 1989 700+ words
Smokeless Tobacco Use by Youth in the U.S. ABSTRACT...tobacco, commonly referred to as smokeless tobacco, are being used by many adolescent...Information about patterns of smokeless tobacco use and motivations of users may...
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