Alternative Tobacco Products

1. Alternative Tobacco Products By Marc A. and Nathan B.

2. Bidis • Bidis are smoked like a cigar or cigarette. It is simply dessert and smoking rolled up into one. They are made from flakes of dust from a dark tobacco leaves. They usually come in different flavors. Bidi smokers have a greater risk of heart disease, lung cancer and other cancers than do people who smoke traditional cigarettes.

3. Dissolvable Tobacco Dissolvable Tobacco can come in three different forms. These forms are sticks, strips, and tablets that can be mistaken for Altoids or Tic Tacs. The strips can be mistaken for Listerine strips. Some of the health hazards are that constant exposure to tobacco juice causes cancer of the esophagus, pharynx, larynx, stomach and pancreas. Smokeless tobacco users are at higher risk for oral cancer compared to non-users.

4. Hookahs Hookahs are sometimes called water pipes are used to smoke specially made tobacco that is available in a variety of flavors like apple, mint, cherry, chocolate, coconut, licorice, cappuccino, and watermelon. The charcoal used to heat tobacco in the hookah increases the health risks by producing high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and cancer-causing chemicals. Hookah tobacco and smoke contain numerous toxic substances known to cause lung, bladder, and oral cancers.

5. E-Cigarettes Electronic cigarettes are handheld nicotine-delivery devices that are currently swirling in controversy. They are similar to a regular cigarette but doesn’t have all of the tobacco and other chemicals in it. It simply just has nicotine and water in it. The water is heated and becomes water vapor to simulate the smoke of a regular cigarette. There are cartridges that you place inside that are filled with the nicotine, which is how you get the nicotine. E-cigarettes have an equivalent amount of nicotine as a whole pack of cigarettes, which can raise your blood pressure and put a lot of strain on your heart, which can increase the chance of having a heart attack.