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Straight facts about Tobacco use
The Real Deal
Quitting is not a pretty sight, because nicotine is as addictive as alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. According to the SGR, when people quit, they might experience “frustration, anger, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, restlessness, and decreased heart rate.” The Surgeon General found that most smokers start before they finish high school. So if you make it to graduation day without starting to smoke, chances are you never will!
Up in Smoke!
The typical smoker spends about $700 a year on cigarettes. Think of what you could do with all that dough: Play 2,800 video-arcade games.
Have the world’s greatest slumber party: Take your 40 best friends to the movies, then order 19 pizzas (with everything, of course!) to munch on while reading your 162 new comic books.
Talk on the phone to your friend in another state for 126 hours and 22 minutes.
Make a donation to your favorite charity. That way you could really help others!
Buy 1,400 seedlings to plant three acres of oak, hickory, walnut, or ash trees.
It’s boring, we know, but if you put $700 every year in a bank account earning 5 percent interest, you’d have $25,003.47 after 20 years. With a sum like that you could really have some fun!
Is smokeless tobacco safer than cigarettes?
NO WAY! It’s true that many people think smokeless tobacco (also known as chewing or spit tobacco, or snuff) isn’t as bad as cigarettes. One study quoted in the SGR said that 77 percent of kids thought cigarette smoking was very harmful, but only 40 percent thought smokeless tobacco was very harmful. Very wrong! The truth is that smokeless tobacco use is connected with all sorts of problems.
BAD HEALTH! Smokeless tobacco can cause bleeding gums and sores of the mouth that never heal. Eventually you might end up with cancer.
TOUGH TO QUIT! Tobacco is tobacco: it all contains nicotine, and nicotine is addictive!
VERY DISGUSTING! It stains your teeth a yellowish-brown color. It gives you bad breath. It can make you dizzy, give you the hiccups, even make you throw up. (Definitely NOT cool!)
Finally, one more fact to chew on—according to the SGR, kids who use smokeless tobacco are more likely to start using cigarettes, too. That’s a double whammy that no healthy body can survive! So spit it out; say no to smokeless tobacco.
http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/smokelesstobacco.html
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