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Tobacco and Tobacco Products
Native to North and South America, tobacco dates back to around 6,000 BC. Native Americans used tobacco in many different ways, including in religious practices and for medicinals. Tobacco is in the same plant family as the potato, pepper, and the poisonous nightshade. In this topic, questions about tobacco and tobacco products are asked and answered.
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Hell yes it is! It's what I'm dipping now and it's much better on my opinion than wintergreen or any fruity flavors. It has a sweeter yet slightly salty flavor which I prefer over Cope straight which is way to salty and is the only other straight flavor I've tried. I've heard Grizzly straight long cut is also pretty good but I've yet to try it out, maybe that'll be my next can.
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 tar a poisonous substance found in tobacco?
Tar is a sticky black substance which sticks to your lungs, from cigarette smoke. It can turn your lungs from pink to black, causing many health problems. It can cause lung cancer which can cause death. Tar can also cause very technical medical problems within the lungs!
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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After a dental filling when can you smoke cigarettes?
There is no problem with smoking after having fillings done on your teeth. Except that long term effects of smoking will darken those fillings if they are white, and smoking in general is very bad for your health.
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.
Imported cigarette like products that are made of tobacco wrapped in leaf and tied with string?
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Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotinia. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide and, in the form of nicotine it is used in some medicines too. In consumption it most frequently appears in the forms of cigarettes, smokeless products like chewing, snuffing, or snus. So, I conclude that people could not exist without tobacco. With tobacco especially with cigarettes, cigars and other smoking products people can relax with their friends after a very hard working day.
What are two types of tobacco addictions?
Being an ex smoker myself, being addicted to the nicotine is one and then a person gets addicted to what I call (busy hand and finger syndrome) which is the actual performing of; taking the cigarette out of the pack, lighting it, arm up and down movement, taping off the ashes, putting cigarette out. All these things become a terrible habit.
Addition: These characterize the two types of addiction: physical and psychological.
Nicotine is an addictive substance. Your central nervous system has receptors that respond to it and when it is withdrawn for a certain period of time, they tell the brain to get more. "Cravings"... this is part of the addiction, but perhaps the hardest to break is the psychological. All of these descriptions of what the user did while smoking. The habit. It becomes ritualistic and ingrained in our psyche that it becomes part of a routine that is even harder to break, many times, than the physical addiction. Our brain creates neural networking where the brain cells connect with each other and relate certain activities for instance, smoking a cigarette while drinking coffee... MANY people get so used to this particular combination that drinking coffee may actually trigger cravings for a cigarette-- or after eating-- while stressed. There are many activities that our brains our hard-wired (our neurons and neural nets) actually come to expect these things. In this case, it both the stimulation of nicotonic acetylcholine receptors in the central nervous system by the nicotine itself (physical addiction) AND the habits and rituals that accompany, trigger, or precede smoking or consuming nicotine which are built over time by connections in our brain itself (psychological).
How many people does chewing tobacco kill each year?
Approximately zero.
The main health risk of tobacco is cancer, which usually takes more than a few years to develop to the point of being fatal. Since teens in most places don't even have (legal) access to tobacco until they're almost not teens anymore, the number of teens who contract and die from cancer in the one or two years where they can both get tobacco AND are still teens is pretty small.
Teens who have asthma and smoke could potentially die pretty quickly, but this could be considered dying from stupidity rather than tobacco, as taking up smoking when you're alreadyhaving difficulty breathing is not very bright.
The number of people who die from tobacco-related diseases who started using tobacco products when they were teens, though, is much, much higher.
Can you chew tobacco while hunting deer?
Ive been dipping for many years and have shot many deer while chewing! It goes back to the question of do you think deer associate chewing with humans. They dont have the recolection of know what the smell is! As I teach new hunters into the sport I tell them one thing "You can fool a deers eyes and ears but its nearly immpossible to fool their nose!" If you eliminate your human odor or reduce it whatever your eating chewing or drinking in your stand does not matter as much!
Chewing tobacco dont do it it will rot your teeth out and give you cancer
Can smoking pipe tobacco in cigarette form be dangerous or make you sick?
Good question, seeing that I am actually now sick and coughing up a lung after smoking pipe tobacco cigarettes for only two days. I attempted avoiding the high price of Marlboros at the counter, but I am back to paying my high taxes like everyone else. I can't describe how uncomfortable my chest feels right now after smoking pipe tobacco cigarettes...in short it is something I will never do again. I would imagine that each person has a different experience though. I did not see any problems until smoking about 40 pipe tobacco cigarettes, then I was pretty congested.
What happens to you when you smoke tobacco?
If you chew tobacco, a great buzz can follow for the first several times of use. These effects will gradually wear off, and will not be as strong if you ingest nicotine from some other avenue, such as cigarette smoking. Remember kids, your first time only keep it in for a couple minutes, nicotine poisoning makes for a great story, but your friends might not like to be covered in your puke.
first of all you cant chew tobacco when you are a child. that is just wrong and stupid.
Tegenwoordig zijn er alternatieven voor waterpijp tabak zoals steam stones van Shiazo of van Paradise. Dit is een goede alternatief voor nicotine, teer en andere schadelijke stoffen die in tabak zit. Dit betekent niet dat waterpijpen gezond is als je steam stones gebruikt.
Vaak wordt aangegeven dat waterpijp roken gezonder is dan sigaretten roken, dit is echter niet het geval. Er zijn meerdere onderzoeken die aantonen dat hookah zeker schadelijker is dan sigaretten.
What age do people start using dip tobacco?
Many people start dipping young as they were raised around it. 14-18 years old. Others who were not raised around it can begin dipping in college when they are introduced to it by those who have been dipping for years. I have noticed that most people start dipping from the ages 14-22 when they are experimenting with different substances. (Alcohol, tobacco, and others)
What are three negative effects of tobacco?
-Tobacco smoking is currently responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults.
-Smoking tobacco during pregnancy causes more than 61,000 low-birth-weight infants.
-It is the leading preventable cause of all deaths.
Don't smoke! its for losers
Punishment for Underage purchasing of tobacco?
If you are 17, you can sell tobacco within a 4hour time window. But no more than that. It also depends on the state your in. Different states have different laws on minors selling tobacco. Hope this helps
Which country is the largest exporter of tobacco?
- China ... 2.66 million tonnes (38% of world total 7 million tonnes)
- European Union ... 0.71 million tonnes (10.2%)
- India ... 0.52 million tonnes (7.4%)
- Russia ... 0.44 million tonnes (6.4%)
- United States ... 0.43 million tonnes (6.2%)
- Brazil ... 0.23 million tonnes (3.3%)
- Japan ... 0.18 million tonnes (2.6%)
- Indonesia ... 0.17 million tonnes (2.4%)
- Turkey ... 0.14 million tonnes (2%)
- Pakistan ... 0.10 million tonnes (1.4%)
Does chewing tobacco damage your lungs?
yes. But when u do it in excess.but u might get throat cancer sooner. A 27 year old died because of it yesterday in the news i saw
Is tobacco smoke common among young teens?
Yes, they can. The only law against it is that a child under the age of 19 may not buy or be given a pack or one single cigarette. If a 12 year old should steal one, and a cop drives buy watching the child smoke, he/she cannot take the cigarrete out of the child's hands.
What is the government doing to stop the use of tobacco?
The government involvement in tobacco smoking varies around the world; in some countries smoking is not regulated in any way by the government while other countries have outlawed it all together.
The various involvement of the government includes:
- Age restriction of tobacco products and fines for purchasing for minors
- Increased taxes on tobacco products
- Warnings on packages
- Banning of smoking indoors and in public places
What ingredient in tobacco that is the main carcinogen?
None of them. Epidemiological studies have SUGGESTED that tobacco MAY increase the RISK of developing cancer. Barbaric laboratory experiments on rats and dogs (try Googling "beagles smoking") have provided some further supporting EVIDENCE (and also contradictory evidence). Wouldn't the billions wasted be better spent researching a cure for cancer? Smoking rates are decreasing yet the incidence of cancer is increasing.
