Tobacco
If you like the aroma, you're gonna get a stoma!
by Toby Kafin
Smoking
- at least 50 known carcinogens in cigarettes
- deposits tar in your lungs
- cigarettes contain arsenic (rat poison)
- can cause cancer skin, respiratory, and gastrointestinal problems
Smokeless Tobacco
- at least 28 know carcinogens in smokeless tobacco
- causes oral, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer
Costs and Dangers
- 443,000 people die a year in the US from tobacco
- 5 million people die annually worldwide from tobacco
- no tobacco is safe
- tobacco costs the US 193 billion dollars each year
Ways to Quit
- nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, and lollipops
- individual or group therapy
- telephone quitlines