Tobacco

Other names for tobacco

Cigarettes, cigars, smokes, snus, rollies, straights.

Tobacco is one of the drugs that pep you up.

Tobacco is made from the dried leaves of the tobacco plant.
The leaves are processed into cigarettes or rolling tobacco, snus, pipe tobacco and cigars.

Improved concentration
Lack of appetite.
Dizziness.
Relaxation (actually this is because you are smoking away the withdrawal effects).
When tobacco burns, it releases nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide.
It increases your heartbeat and constricts your blood vessels.
When the nicotine in your body decreases , you get restless. You want another smoke.
The tar in tobacco can cause the mucous membranes in your respiratory system to become inflamed.
Carbon monoxide displaces the oxygen in your blood. Organs like your heart and muscles are deprived of oxygen.

What are the risks of smoking tobacco?

Smoking damages your skin and your teeth. It gives you bad breath.
Your physical condition deteriorates.
Smoking damages your lungs. It makes you more susceptible to bronchitis and lung cancer.
Bronchitis gives you a chronic cough. Tar can also cause abnormal cell growth: cancer.
Smoking damages your blood vessels. It causes hardening of the arteries, which can eventually lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Nicotine is addictive. Your body soon needs more and more nicotine to keep feeling the effects.
As the nicotine level in your body declines, you get restless. You light up another smoke.
You don’t notice you’re addicted until you try to stop smoking or you’re someplace where you’re not allowed to smoke.

Versie: april 2021