chewing tobacco
Chewing Tobacco Most all teens worry about how they look and where youre seen. So how do teens think they look if He or She chews or dips tobacco? ... But some teens think that indulging in spit tobacco is cool. ... They are wrong on both counts What Is Spit Tobacco? Spit tobacco, which baseball players started using to keep their mouths from getting dry in dusty ballparks, comes in two forms, snuff, a fine grain tobacco that users pinch or dip between their lower lip and gum, and chewing tobacco, which is shredded tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek and gum. Sucking or chewing just a little of either allows nicotine to be absorbed into the bloodstream through the tissues in your mouth. ... In addition to the addictive drug nicotine, youll find these ingredients, and more, in spit tobacco: N-Nitrosamines (cancer-causing agents) Formaldehyde (a favorite preservative of dead things in biology class) Cadmium (used in car batteries) Arsenic (what youd like to feed your worst enemies) Lead (the poisonous kind) Cyanide (another poison) Benzene (toxic liquid sometimes used as motor fuel) Polonium 210 (a radioactive element) Its hard to imagine how this chemical soup could do anything positive for your image. The ads for spit tobacco in sports magazines and the Smokeless Tobacco Councils denials of the connection between smokeless tobacco and cancer are working.