Tobacco

"Today's teenager is tomorrow's potential regular customer."

Tobacco is a harmful herbaceous plant. The leaves are rolled into cigars, shredded for uses in cigarettes and pipes, and processed for chewing or snuff. 70% of teen smokers say that given the chance to do things differently they wouldn't have started smoking. However, most that have are still smoking 5-6 years later, even though they said they could quit. Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the US. It causes 440,000 deaths a year. There are about 5,000 chemical components in tobacco smoke, 69 can cause cancer. The decision to use tobacco is almost always made as a teen. More than 3,000,000 young people smoke 1/2 billion cigarettes each year.

Here are some links to websites where you can get additional information on the terrible effects of tobacco:

Tobacco Info & Prevention Source (TIPS)

Tobacco Control-Quitting Smoking

Action on Smoking & Health (ASH)

Nicotine Addiction in Adolescence

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