Comparison on Smokeless Tobacco and Cigarettes

1. Comparison on Smokeless Tobacco and Cigarettes Keep the Tar on the Roads Not In Your Body By: Mandi Payne

2. e They’re both addicting, and They’re both made from tobacco. But which one is safer? Chewing tobacco HAS to be the safer one because it doesn’t actually go in your body, Right? Well…. Think again. This might change you wanting to chew some dip or light another one up.

3. Why isn’t Smokless tobacco safer? • 1 pinch of smoking tobacco is the equivalent to 2 or 3 cigarettes. Even after your mouth is tobacco free, nicotene is still being absorbed into your body. Although it contains 23 carcinogens compared to the 43 found in cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco greatly increases your chance for oral cancers and other things like gingivitis. Smokless tobacco is by far probably more dangerous than cigarettes.

4. Smokeless tobacco percentages Smokeless tobacco percentages show that smokeless tobacco use was higher among males (5%) than it was females (1%). Smoking tobacco increases chances for mouth cancer by 80%. Smokeless tobacco use increased for 12th-grade males from 1986 until the early 1990’s, but has declined since in all grades.

5. Cigarette Percentages. • Smoking leaves 31,000 kids fatherless each year where as it leaves 12,000 kids motherless each year. In 2008 among Caucasians , 23.5 percent of men and 20.6 percent of women smoke. Among blacks, 25.6 percent of men and 17.8 percent of women smoke. Among Hispanics 20.7 percent of men and 10.7 percent of women smoke. 9.9 percent of Asian adults smoke. 24.3 percent of American Indian/ Alaska Native adults smoke. 90% of all smokers start to smoke before the age of 20. %0% have already started by the time they are 14.

6. Your Personal Health. Smoking will often lead to some kind of illness. In the US about 50,00 people will die each year from second hand smoke-related diseases. Out of the current smokers in the us, 358,00 have a cancer other than year cancer from smoking, where as 46,000 of those have lung cancer. Smokeless tobacco will give you various things like hairy tounge , gingivitis and other bacterial infections.

7. What about Nicotene? • An average of 4.5mg of nicotine is absorbed from 7.9g of chewing tobacco and an average of 3.6mg of nicotine is absorbed from 2.5g moist snuff. You only absorb 1mg of nicotine per cigarette.

8. Random facts • Tobacco kills over 20 times more people than murder • Some of the harmful ingredients found in tobacco are — arsenic, formaldehyde, dirt, fertilizer, soot, pesticides, cyanide, manure, nicotine, and dead bugs • There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.

9. Tobacco Sales andadvertising • Tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise their product. Instead, they must pay for anti-smoking campeigns.Revenues from smokeless tobacco sales reached $2.36 billion in 2002 and $2.61 billion in 2005 • Tobacco companies have been targeting women with their advertising for the last 70 years. • As late as 1999, tobacco companies placed in-store advertising signage at a child’s eye level.

10. So you make the call • Is lighting another one up or have another pinch of smokeless tobacco worth it ? You make the call. Before you do either, think of the risks and effects it could have on you, your family members and your body.