Alternative Tobacco Products

1. By Joseph Teddick Alternative Tobacco Products

2. Bidis • Bidis are a type of tobacco which are very popular and not expensive in India. • They are tobacco leaves stuffed with more tobacco inside them. • They are used just like cigarettes except you must pull the string on the end of them to keep them lit. • They are more dangerous then cigarettes considering the fact that they have more nicotine carbon monoxide and tar and they give you a higher risk of oral cancers. Of course since it has tobacco in it, it gives you a higher risk of cancers, heart disease, and lung disease.

3. Hookah • A hookah is a tool for smoking which takes the smoke and filters it through water which reduces the smoke. • People may say that hookah smoke isn’t as bad as normal cigarette smoke, but a lot of people still say that smoking any tobacco isn’t safe. • A normal hookah lasts more than 40 minutes, however if you smoke a hookah for one hour you will absorb 100-200 times the smoke of a normal cigarette. • The water to filter the smoke does not damage you.

4. E-cigarettes • It is an electronic cigarette which is battery powered. • It gives you nicotine by inhaling it in a vaporized solution. • The purpose of it is to still enjoy smoking, but the harmful substances are reduced because there is no smoke. • They are not sure of the long term affects of the E-cigarette because it is new, but they do know that nicotine is harmful to you because it can speed of your heart rate.

5. Dissolvable Tobacco • It is a smokeless tobacco which dissolves in your mouth. • There are three kinds which are orbs, sticks, and strips. • They try to get young kids to use these products so they try to make them appealing to the eye. • The orbs can look like Tic Tacs, the sticks can look like tooth picks, and the strips look like Listerine Breath Strips. • Like the E-cigarettes, Dissolvable Tobacco is new so they don’t know the long term health risks, but they do know the risks with the nicotine which is inside them.