Smokeless Tobacco: No Smoke, No Danger?

There's NO such thing as a "SAFE" tobacco product. 
It's that simple really!

Smokeless tobacco comes in different forms; snuff and chewing tobacco. Snuff is a fine grain tobacco that comes in can or teabag-like pouches. Chewing tobacco comes in shredded, twisted, or bricked tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek and gum. The sucking and chewing allow nicotine, the highly addictive component of tobacco products, to be absorbed into the bloodstream through the tissues of the mouth.

What can smokeless tobacco do to you?

•  Addiction to Nicotine
• Oral cancers of the mouth, throat, and larynx (voice box)
• Increased heart rate, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and irregular heartbeats, all leading to a greater risk of heart attacks.
• Cracking and bleeding lips and gums
• Receding gums (peeling back of gums)
• Bad breath
• Yellowish-brown stains on the teeth
• Leukoplakia: white sores in the mouth that can lead to cancer
• Loosed teeth which can eventually fall out
• Reduced sense of taste and ability to smell
• Ulcers

If you would like to quit visit www.waytoquit.org. If Select Health is your insurance provider you can also visit www.quitnow.net/program. If you complete a smoking cessation course you can earn 2 hours of vacation. See the activity menu for details.