Some people, instead of smoking are chewing tobacco.
One of the oldest methods of consuming tobacco leaves, chewing was most prevalent until the early 20th century when smoking became more popular.
But is chewing tobacco less dangerous than smoking? Or do smoking and chewing tobacco cause the same types and severity of diseases? Smoking and chewing tobacco are both dangerous to one's health.
The only difference is that the dangers of secondhand smoke do not apply if you chew it.
Therefore, if you have chosen to chew tobacco instead of smoking it, you are harming just yourself.
Why is this so? Tobacco contains nicotine and many carcinogenic and mutagenic substances.
Whether you smoke or chew it, these substances are still present.
And these substances will still enter your body.
The most prevalent cancer when masticating tobacco is that of the oral cavity - gums, cheek, throat, tongue, or mouth.
Lung cancer and pancreatic cancers can still be caused by masticating tobacco.
Again, this is because of the cancer-causing substances in tobacco.
The highly addicting substance, nicotine, is still present if when you chew tobacco.
Nicotine causes the blood pressure and heart rate to rise.
It has also been linked to constricting the blood vessels which causes blockage.
This is the reason why smoking has been linked to peripheral vascular disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, and heart attack.
A smoker who is less than 40 years old is 5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack.
Emphysema and chronic pulmonary disease have also been linked to nicotine.
When you chew tobacco you also increases the risk of acquiring different infections like invasive pneumococcal disease, HIV susceptibility, common colds, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory and pulmonary infections.
Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked to both smoking and chewing tobacco.
Infants who die from this disease have high concentrations of nicotine in their lungs.
This is because both smoking and chewing tobacco cause nicotine to enter the infant's bloodstream through breast milk.
Anti-smoking campaigns have been initiated to make people aware of the dangers of smoking.
Now that masticating tobacco also pose the same dangers, it is appropriate to quit tobacco chewing as well.
Quit smoking and chewing tobacco.
Save your life now!
One of the oldest methods of consuming tobacco leaves, chewing was most prevalent until the early 20th century when smoking became more popular.
But is chewing tobacco less dangerous than smoking? Or do smoking and chewing tobacco cause the same types and severity of diseases? Smoking and chewing tobacco are both dangerous to one's health.
The only difference is that the dangers of secondhand smoke do not apply if you chew it.
Therefore, if you have chosen to chew tobacco instead of smoking it, you are harming just yourself.
Why is this so? Tobacco contains nicotine and many carcinogenic and mutagenic substances.
Whether you smoke or chew it, these substances are still present.
And these substances will still enter your body.
The most prevalent cancer when masticating tobacco is that of the oral cavity - gums, cheek, throat, tongue, or mouth.
Lung cancer and pancreatic cancers can still be caused by masticating tobacco.
Again, this is because of the cancer-causing substances in tobacco.
The highly addicting substance, nicotine, is still present if when you chew tobacco.
Nicotine causes the blood pressure and heart rate to rise.
It has also been linked to constricting the blood vessels which causes blockage.
This is the reason why smoking has been linked to peripheral vascular disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, and heart attack.
A smoker who is less than 40 years old is 5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack.
Emphysema and chronic pulmonary disease have also been linked to nicotine.
When you chew tobacco you also increases the risk of acquiring different infections like invasive pneumococcal disease, HIV susceptibility, common colds, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory and pulmonary infections.
Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked to both smoking and chewing tobacco.
Infants who die from this disease have high concentrations of nicotine in their lungs.
This is because both smoking and chewing tobacco cause nicotine to enter the infant's bloodstream through breast milk.
Anti-smoking campaigns have been initiated to make people aware of the dangers of smoking.
Now that masticating tobacco also pose the same dangers, it is appropriate to quit tobacco chewing as well.
Quit smoking and chewing tobacco.
Save your life now!