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| Product names: Cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, bidis (small imported flavored cigars that are much stronger and contain larger amounts of nicotine approximately 60% tobacco and 40% cloves) |
| Street names: Cancer sticks, sherm or sherman (cigarettes laced with PCP), monos (cigarettes made with cocaine paste and tobacco), sticks, chew, smoke, bone, butt, coffin nail |
| Symptoms of use: Smelly hair, clothes, and breath, yellowing teeth, coughs, increased asthma attacks, shortness of breath and poorer athletic performance. After only a few weeks users of chew or dip tobacco can develop cracked lips, white spots, sores, and bleeding of the mouth. |
| Potential consequences: Addiction, respiratory problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis are 10 times more likely to occur in smokers than in nonsmokers, heart and cardiovascular disease, cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, stomach, uterine cervix, and mouth, premature wrinkles. According to American Lung Association 60 % of smokers begin by age 14 and 90% by age 19. Most of them think they can smoke and not become addicted. |
| Route of Administration: Smoked or ingested orally (chew or spit tobacco) |
| Illegal under age of 18 |
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