Tobacco and Its Effects

Tobacco

• Tobacco is a plant cultivated for its leaves, which are dried and fermented before being used in tobacco products
• The primary addictive substance found in tobacco products is nicotine.
• Tobacco can be consumed by smoking, chewing, or sniffing.
• Oviedo was the first person to use the term "tobacco" in print.
• "Tobacco" was originally used to describe the instrument used by the natives of Hispaniola to inhale smoke or powder from the herb.

Tar

• Tar is a component of tobacco smoke and is responsible for many of its harmful effects, including lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Passive Smoking

• Passive smoking describes the inhalation of secondhand smoke from tobacco products by non-smokers.

Types of Tobacco Products

Cigars

• A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves designed for smoking.
• Cigars are typically wrapped in a tobacco leaf or a material containing tobacco.
• Cigars are usually unfiltered.

Hookah

• A hookah (waterpipe) is an instrument with one or more stems used to heat or vaporize tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium.
• The smoke is passed through a water basin (often made of glass) before inhalation

Cigarettes

• A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material (typically tobacco) rolled in thin paper for smoking.
• It is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder, and the resulting smoke is inhaled orally through the opposite end.
• Cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco consumption

Smokeless Tobacco

• Smokeless tobacco is also known as chewing tobacco, scrap, plug, spit tobacco, dipping tobacco, dip, snuff, and snus.

E-Cigarettes

• E-cigarettes are also called electronic cigarettes, e-cigs, vapes, vaporizers, vape pens, hookah pens, e-hookah, electronic pipes, and e-pipes.
• E-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are tobacco products that allow users to inhale an aerosol containing nicotine and other substances.
• They are not FDA-approved for quitting smoking.

Tobacco

• Tobacco is a plant whose leaves are dried and fermented to produce tobacco products.
• Nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco, can be consumed through smoking, chewing, or sniffing.
• Tar, a component of tobacco smoke, contributes to harmful effects like lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
• Secondhand smoke, or passive smoking, is inhaled by non-smokers.

Cigar

• A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves, typically wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
• Cigars are often unfiltered.

Hookah or Waterpipe

• Hookahs are used to vaporize and smoke various substances including tobacco, flavored tobacco, cannabis, hashish, and opium.
• Smoke passes through a water basin before inhalation.

Cigarette

• Cigarettes are thin cylinders containing tobacco, wrapped in paper for smoking.
• Cigarette smoking is the most prevalent method of tobacco consumption.

Smokeless Tobacco

• Smokeless tobacco is consumed through chewing, dipping, or sniffing.
• Various names for smokeless tobacco include: chewing tobacco, scrap, plug, spit tobacco, dipping tobacco, dip, snuff, and snus.

E-cigarettes and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

• These products are tobacco products that allow users to inhale an aerosol containing nicotine and other substances.
• E-cigarettes are not FDA-approved quit-smoking devices.