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TOBACCO. Cigarettes snuff chewing tobacco All contain the addictive drug nicotine and can also cause cancer. 75% of cancers in the mouth, lips, tongue, throat, nose and larynx are due to tobacco use. Long-term users have a 50% greater risk of developing oral cancers than non-users.
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Cigarettes • snuff • chewing tobacco All contain the addictive drug nicotine and can also cause cancer.
75% of cancers in the mouth, lips, tongue, throat, nose and larynx are due to tobacco use. • Long-term users have a 50% greater risk of developing oral cancers than non-users.
When smoking tobacco, the user inhales tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and 200 known poisons into the lungs. The nicotine in cigarettes is powerfully addictive.
One can of snuff gives you as much nicotine as 60 cigarettes. • Nicotine gives you the “buzz” but is highly addictive. • 28 cancer-causing substances have been found in smokeless tobacco. • Smokeless tobacco is harder to quit than cigarettes.
approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute • 15 billion cigarettes are sold each day • 5 trillion cigarettes are produced and used on an annual basis
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Between 1964 and 2004, cigarette smoking caused an estimated 12 million deaths, including 4.1 million deaths from cancer, and 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular diseases.
