Tobacco

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Tobacco

• By Devin R. Ronnie E.

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Why you should know

• If you were going to use them or do
• If you know someone that does or wants to
• They are very bad for you
• And often very disgusting or interesting

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Ingredients

• Tobacco
• Carbon Monoxide
• Nicotine
• Rat Poison
• Tar
• Carcinogens

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Negative effects of smoking

• Addiction
• Brain damage/ memory loss
• Cancer of the lungs, mouth, and throat
• Yellow fingertips and loss of circulation in
  fingers and toes
• Wrinkly skin
• Weight loss (sometimes)
• Gateway drug

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Addiction

• Feels like your lungs are what your stomach feels
  when your hungry
• More of an addiction problem than anything
  because of how often it is used and that you can
  use it with everything (you cant be injecting
  heroin or snorting cocaine all the time, you'd
  die) That of course is mental addiction not
  physical

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Cancer

• First of all Scary treatment, death, discomfort
  etc.
• Lungs, mouth, and throat
• DISGUSTING

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Brain Damage

• Harms more than one region of the brain
• Brain damage can lead to memory loss
• Holes in brain

Vs. Cocaine abuse Not as much difference as
you Would hope or want to see
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Gateway drug

• Some scientists believe that because tobacco is
  an addictive drug it is more of a gateway drug
  than illicit drugs that arent addictive
• Especially if you start at a young age, its
  definitely a very dangerous gateway drug because
  you are obtaining it illegally just like you
  would, say, crack

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Tobacco IS a DRUGNegative affects of dealing

• Get in trouble with the law (Misdemeanor Crime
  leads to a Criminal Record)
• Get into trouble with the school
• Get into trouble with your parents
• Bad reputation

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GET HELP

• Medical Practitioners
• Knowledgeable Friends and Family
• Trusted adults
• Counselors, Teachers, Principals, Coaches

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Conclusion

• Ask, is it worth it? Really? (think twice)
• Dont Get involved with drugs
• It always turns out bad