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Smoking and Tobacco Use
Includes questions related to the abuse of and dependency on nicotine and nicotine products including cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco.
2,812 Questions
How much does a can of chewing tobacco weigh?
Chewing gum is considered indigestible and will not make a person fat. The average weight of chewed chewing gum is 2.7 grams.
What are somethings to know about smoking?
the recommendation for smoking is no more than 10 fags a day...
Smoking should be stopped before it stops us.Quit smoking so that you feel ease
at brething.Stop making "smoking" a habit.
What is tobacco that is being chewed?
skoal, coepenganen, kayak, longhorn, timber wolf, grizzly, stokers, lancaster, redman, southern pride, kodiak, beech nut, husky, red seal,
WDhat happens to someone who is a heavy drinker an smoker?
Alcohol poisoning, liver damage. Bad stuff.
Where can you get nicotine patches?
Nicotine gum can be purchased at any drugstore like Walgreens or CVS and is also available in some convenience stores like a Quikmart or 7 Eleven. This gum is controlled like cigarettes so you will have to ask the sales clerk for help.
no! smoking on birth control increases your risk for blood clots and strokes no matter what age you are. However, regardless of the fact that smoking is a bad health practice, there's a greater chance of blood clot for a pregnant woman than for a smoker on the pill younger than 35.
a person that is smoking a cigarette as opposed to a person that is inhaling the smoke exuded by a active smoker.
How many people does second hand smoking kill?
yes ,but please keep it away because that smoker made a kids lungs black every-time the kid inhales .
How long will one nicotine patch last?
I read that it is only about 3 mg over the 24 hours. Seems low to me since 1-3 mg is absorbed from one cig, so if someone is a pack a day smoker then that is 20-60 mg absorbed per day by way of smoking. 3 mg from a patch will come way short on satisfying a pack a day smoker. Really, when you think about it, tobacco growers can suffer from green leaf sickness in which the nicotine is absorbed right thru the skin from handling the leaf. So I'm sure a drug company can get the full 21 mg from the patch into your blood no problem . The greatest difficulty would lie in having that transfer take place evenly over 24 hours. I say 21 mg from a 21 mg patch. Want to know a far cheaper way? Cut a cigarette into 5 even size pieces. Get a small container and pour olive oil over it and let them soak. Then one at a time every about 4 hours take a section and pop it in your mouth and wash it down like a pill. It takes a while for you to digest out the nicotine. One cigarette has about 9 mg of nicotine, so that one cigarette over the 24 hours will be about the same as smoking 3 to 9 cigarettes (depends on how much you bong hit your cigarettes normally and suck every ounce of nicotine and tar from each hit). Then over the next few weeks start to wean yourself off. This way you break the psychological habit, the oral habit and social habit and other habits, like having a cigarette with a cup of coffee habit, before you start to deal with the physical habit. For a lot of people nicotine is a form of self medication. It wouldn't hurt to look into maybe you smoke because your low on some neurotransmitter in the brain and possibly you should think about an anti depressant... like me and lots of other people... Maybe a little 5-HDT from the health store would be a start. This is a precursor ro melatonin and serotonin. It is an intermediate of l-trytophan (the stuff in turkey that makes you sleepy).
Should tobacco and alcohol ads be banned?
Tobacco products should not be banned, our world is already becoming very full of people. I know this may sound wrong but... people that choose to smoke take on the very high chance of getting many forms of cancer. Thus killing people quicker, that may sound twistid, it really does need to happen. people die anyways, this just quickens the process.
Obviously, the curing process of most common chewing tobacco brands includes fermentation. Even if you only chew or dip occasionally, you probably know that there's a big difference between Copenhagen and Grizzly, Kodiak, etc., with Skoal in between somewhere. This is because Copenhagen ferments their tobacco more, which gives a stronger buzz and harsher taste. Usually, someone who's new to chewing tobacco will prefer a lighter brand.
After you've flavored your tobacco, or simply added molasses, you'll need to seal it. Pressure may also help in the curing process. Some people do this by twisting the tobacco into ropes, some press it into plugs, or you could seal it in a hollowed out log, (see comments beneath linked article).
The next step is to wait. During this time, the tobacco will ferment and the flavor will permeate the leaf entirely. It's up to you how long you wait. It could be anywhere from 1 to 6 months. If you're up to the task of making your own chewing tobacco, I suggest you try many different things, and decide which one gives you the best results.
Do Black and Milds have nicotine in them?
Yes. Little cigars have nicotine levels (100-200 mg nicotine) that are generally higher than
cigarettes (~8.4 mg nicotine).
Which is worse for you smoking or chewing tobacco?
Smoking and chewing tobacco each have severe health risks. While smoking is a major risk factor for glaucoma, emphysema, throat cancer, and lung cancer, "chewing tobacco" is connected to a greatly increased risk of oral cancer. Both contain nicotine, which has its own documented health effects.
What is in cigarettes that can kill you?
(arcinic,stric-9,cyinyde,)
tobacco leaves are processed in vats where chemicals are added
then the tobacco is dried and packaged.
Do you mean arsenic, strychnine and cyanide?
Arsenious pesticides were commonly used on many crops, including tobacco, but their use has been banned for decades. Arsenic occurs naturally and is absorbed by all plants (and domestic water supplies) from the environment.
Strychnine is an allelochemical produced by the strychnos genus of plants, of an entirely different family to the tobacco plant. It is used as a pesticide and rodenticide but its use is severely restricted to below-ground.
Cyanide is produced naturally by over 1,000 plant species, but not by the tobacco plant. It is present in apricots, peaches, apples, raspberries, many nuts in particular almonds, and vegetables, such as corn, butter beans and spinach.
The permitted levels of arsenic and cyanide in foods and domestic drinking water are substantially higher than those found in tobacco.
Many foods are processed in vats and chemicals added!
What is the legal age to buy tobacco in Iowa?
You have to be at least 18-20 yrs of age to sell any type of cigarettes.
Is it illegal to smoke hookah in public?
It's perfectly legal to have any smoking devices (including hookahs) in your house. However not legal to smoke any illegal substances out of them. As long as your keeping it for the intention to smoke seisha (hookah tobacco) out of it, you have no reason to keep it from anyone including the police.
A addictive drug found in tobacco leaves?
The Nicotine itself is an addictive drug itself / some claim that nicotine is more addictive than heroine/
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Which addictive substance is in tobacco?
Smoking and cancer: What's in a cigarette?
Cigarettes, including low-tar brands, contain dozens of cancer-causing chemicals. A cigarette may look harmless enough - tobacco leaves covered in classic white paper. But when it burns, it releases a dangerous cocktail of about 4,000 chemicalsincluding:
more than 70 cancer-causing chemicals
hundreds of other poisons.
nicotine, a highly addictive drug, and many additives designed to make cigarettes taste nicer and keep smokers hooked.
Cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke
Tar - a mixture of dangerous chemicals
Arsenic - used in wood preservatives
Benzene - an industrial solvent, refined from crude oil
Cadmium - used in batteries
Formaldehyde - used in mortuaries and paint manufacturing
Polonium-210 - a highly radioactive element
Chromium - used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
1,3-Butadiene - used in rubber manufacturing
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - a group of dangerous DNA-damaging chemicals
Nitrosamines - another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
Acrolein - formerly used as a chemical weapon
Other chemicals
Other poisons in cigarette smoke
Hydrogen cyanide - used as an industrial pesticide
Carbon monoxide - found in car exhausts and used in chemicals manufacturing
Nitrogen oxides - a major component of smog
Ammonia - used to make fertilisers and explosives
More poisons
Tar
Tar is a term that describes a collection of solid particles that smokers inhale when they light a cigarette. It is a mixture of lots of chemicals, many of which can cause cancer. When it settles, tar forms a sticky, brown residue that can stain smokers' teeth, fingers and lungs.
Because tar is listed on packs, it is easy to believe that it is the only harmful part of cigarettes. But some of the most dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke are present as gases, and do not count as part of tar. This means that cigarettes with less tar still contain all the other toxic chemicals.
Arsenic
Arsenic is one of the most dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. It can cause cancer as well as damaging the heart and its blood vessels.
Small amounts of arsenic can accumulate in smokers' bodies and build up to higher concentrations over months and years. As well as any direct effects, it can worsen the effect of other chemicals by interfering with our ability to repair our DNA.
Fish and seafood can be major sources of arsenic, but in a form that is less toxic and more readily removed from the body. In contrast, tobacco smoke contains arsenic in a more dangerous form.
Benzene
Benzene is a solvent used to manufacture other chemicals, including petrol. It is well-established that benzene can cause cancer, particularly leukaemia. It could account for between a tenth and a half of the deaths from leukaemia caused by smoking.
Tobacco smoke contains large amounts of benzene and accounts for a big proportion of our exposure to this poison. The average smoker inhales about ten times more benzene than the average non-smoker.
And some studies have estimated that the amount of benzene that a person inhales through second-hand smoke over their lifetime could increase their risk of cancer.
Cadmium
Cadmium is a metal used mostly to make batteries. The majority of cadmium in our bodies comes from exposure to tobacco smoke. Smokers can have twice as much cadmium in their blood as non-smokers.
Studies have found that the amounts of cadmium present in tobacco smoke are capable of affecting our health. It is a known cause of cancer, and can also damage the kidneys and the linings of the arteries.
Our bodies have proteins that mop up harmful chemicals like cadmium, but the amounts in smoke can overload these proteins. Cadmium can also prevent our cells from repairing damaged DNA. Because of this, it can make the effects of other chemicals even worse.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde is a smelly chemical used to kill bacteria, preserve dead bodies and manufacture other chemicals. It is one of the substances in tobacco smoke most likely to cause diseases in our lungs and airways.
Formaldehyde is also a known cause of cancer. It is believed that even the small amounts in second-hand smoke could increase our lifetime risk of cancer.
Tobacco smoke is one of our major sources of formaldehyde exposure. Places where people smoke can have three times the normal levels of this poison.
Polonium-210
Polonium is a rare, radioactive element and polonium-210 is its most common form. Polonium strongly emits a very damaging type of radiation called alpha-radiation that can usually be blocked by thin layers of skin.
But tobacco smoke contains traces of polonium, which become deposited inside their airways and deliver radiation directly to surrounding cells.
The lungs of smokers can be exposed to four times more polonium than those of non-smokers and specific parts may get a hundred times more radiation. One study estimated that someone smoking one and half packs a day receives the equivalent amount of radiation as someone having 300 chest X-rays a year.
Chromium
Chromium is a metal used to make metallic alloys, dyes and paints and comes in different types. Chromium III or 'trivalent chromium' is most commonly used. It is available as dietary supplements and is harmless.
On the other hand, chromium VI or 'hexavalent chromium' is very toxic, is found in tobacco smoke, and is known to cause lung cancer. It allows other cancer-causing chemicals (such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) to stick more strongly to DNA and damage it.
1,3-Butadiene
1,3-butadiene or BDE is an industrial chemical used in rubber manufacture. Some scientists believe that of all the chemicals in tobacco smoke, BDE may present the greatest overall cancer risk. It may not be as good at causing cancer as some of the other chemicals listed here, but it is found in large amounts in tobacco smoke.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs are a group of powerful cancer-causing chemicals that can damage DNA and set cells down the road to becoming tumours.
One of these chemicals - benzo(a)pyrene or BAP - is one of the most widely studied of all tobacco poisons. BAP directly damages p53, a gene that normally protects our bodies against cancer.
Nitrosamines
Nitrosamines are a group of chemicals that can directly damage DNA, like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
They are found in small amounts in food. But tobacco products, including those that are chewed rather than smoked, are by far our largest source of exposure to these chemicals. Even though they are found in relatively small amounts in cigarettes, they are very strong cancer-causing chemicals.
Acrolein
Acrolein is a gas with an intensely irritating smell and is one of the most abundant chemicals in cigarette smoke. It belongs to the same group of chemicals as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, both of which can cause cancer.
Until now, it wasn't clear if acrolein causes cancer as well, but recent experiments suggest that it can. We now know that acrolein can cause DNA damage that is similar to the damage seen in lung cancer patients. Since smoke contains up to 1,000 times more acrolein than other DNA-damaging chemicals, it could be a major cause of lung cancer.
Acrolein also stops our cells from repairing DNA damage, like arsenic and cadmium. And like hydrogen cyanide, it kills the hairs that normally clean our lungs of other toxins.
Other chemicals
Some of the other cancer-causing ingredients of tobacco smoke include:
metals, such as nickel, lead, cobalt and beryllium. While you may be exposed to some of these metals through domestic items or food, inhaling them in tobacco smoke is worse, because they are easily absorbed by the lungs.
acetaldehyde, which is also formed in your tissues when you drink alcohol - it is responsible for many nasty hangover symptoms
hydrazine, a very toxic chemical used mainly in rocket fuel
Hydrogen cyanide
Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas. Of all the chemicals in tobacco smoke, it does the most damage to the heart and blood vessels.
Hydrogen cyanide does not cause cancer, but it increases the risk of other chemicals causing cancer by damaging cilia. These are tiny hairs lining the airways that help to clear toxins away. By killing cilia, hydrogen cyanide causes other dangerous chemicals to be stuck in the lungs and airways.
Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide is a colourless gas with no smell. It is formed when we burn carbon-based fuels, such as gas in cookers or petrol in car engines. It can make up as much as 3-5% of tobacco smoke.
Carbon monoxide sticks to our red blood cells in place of oxygen. This lowers our blood's ability to transport oxygen and deprives our tissues and organs of this vital gas.
Like hydrogen cyanide, it kills cilia and reduces our lungs' ability to clear away toxins. This means that while carbon monoxide does not cause cancer directly, it makes it easier for other chemicals to do so.
Nitrogen oxide
Nitrogen oxide is a gas found in car exhaust and tobacco smoke.
Our bodies use it in very small amounts to carry signals between cells. But in large amounts, it is a major air pollutant. It directly damages lung tissue and causes inflammation in the lungs.
Normally, our bodies produce small amounts of nitrogen oxide, which causes our airways to expand. The large amount of nitrogen oxide in tobacco smoke changes things in two ways:
When smokers are smoking, it expands their airways even further, making it easier for their lungs to absorb nicotine and other chemicals.
When they are not smoking, it shuts off their internal nitrogen oxide production line, causing their airways to constrict. This is one reason why regular smokers often have difficulty breathing.
Ammonia
Ammonia is a gas with a strong, irritating smell, and is used in some toilet cleaners. Some studies have found that ammonia enhances the addictive power of nicotine. It changes nicotine into a gas that is more readily absorbed into the lungs, airways and bloodstream.
Like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, ammonia also kills cilia.
More poisons
Tobacco smoke also contains many other poisons that produce harmful effects. These can be carried throughout the body via our blood vessels.
As well as hydrogen cyanide and ammonia, gases like sulphur dioxide also kill cilia (protective hairs) in our lungs. This stops them from being able to clear away other harmful chemicals.
Chemicals like hydrogen sulphide and pyridine irritate our airways.
Toluene can damage brain cells and interfere with their development.
Why people choose to use tobacco products when they are aware it causes lung cancer?
Many smokers are aware of the risks of smoking and yet continue to smoke or use tobacco products. There are different reasons for this which include:
- A person doesn't believe they will get cancer
- A person believes they will quit in the near future avoiding the health risks
- A person is addicted and can't stop smoking
For many people who are addicted to smoking, it can take up to ten attempts of quitting before they quit for good. Studies have shown that individuals with mental disorders are more likely to smoke as an attempt to self-medicate; if these side issues are dealt with a person can be more likely to quit for good.
In relation to this question, here are the two salient dates.
1619 The first African slaves arrive in Verginia.
1808 Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
Please note that be the Declaration of US Independance was in 1776,
Does bob Dylan still smoke cigarettes?
Bob Dylan smokes a good cigar now and then. Cigarettes are a hard habit to give up and judging by his voice he smokes at least a pack a day.
Where can one find free nicotine patches?
The company, QuitWorks, offers a free 2-week starter supply of nicotine patches to people who meet certain requirements and want to quit smoking. The Smokers' Quitline in one's state may also provide free nicotine patches if one meets certain requirements.
