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The purpose of the TFDCC
youth program is to improve the health of Dane County
youth by significantly reducing their
use of tobacco products and exposure to environmental
tobacco smoke.
This
mission is pursued by the use of prevention through
peer education, advocacy, and countywide activities. |
The
Truth About
Smokeless Tobacco |
CHEMICALS
 Smokeless
"Spit" tobacco contains over 2,000 chemicals including
Polonium 210 (nuclear waste), Formaldehyde, Nicotine, Arsenic, and
Lead.
Some
of the ingredients in spit tobacco include polonium 210 (nuclear
waste), formaldehyde, nicotine, cadmium (used in car batteries),
arsenic, and lead (nerve poison).
The
nicotine in smokeless tobacco is as addicting as the nicotine in
cigarettes.
HEALTH EFFECTS
Many
young people think smokeless tobacco is safer than smoking
cigarettes. But, since you hold the tobacco
in your mouth for minutes at a time, more harmful chemicals can
enter your body than when you smoke.
Spit
tobacco is and addictive and causes mouth cancer and gum and tooth
problems.
Studies
have found that 60-78% of smokeless tobacco users have oral lesions. |
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 Did
you know...?
In the United
States alone, more than 6,000 children and adolescents try their
first cigarette each day.
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By the
time they are high school seniors, 22 percent of adolescents smoke
daily.
70
percent of adolescent smokers wish they had never started smoking
in the first place.
About
three out of every four adolescent smokers have made an attempt
to quit smoking and have failed.
Of
daily adolescent smokers who think that they will not smoke in
5 years, nearly 75 percent are still smoking 5-6 years later.
On
average, someone who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes each
day lives 6.6 years less than someone who never smokes regularly.
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