Chewing tobacco

1. Chewing tobacco Steven Adam Gustavo Ibarra April 16th, 2012

2. Different Types of Chewing Tobacco • Snuff • Finely groundshredded form of tobacco, that is put in between the lower lip and the gum in your mouth • Comes in a small round can • Chewing Tobacco • Leaf that is rolled up and placed in the cheek pouch • Comes in a pouch like packaging • Snus • Placed between the gum or cheek and does not needed to spit out the juices to receive the affects.

3. Brands and Sizes • There are 43 brands of chewing tobacco in total, in which are divided into three categories: • Extra long • Long cut • Fine cut • Extra long being the most causing saliva • Long cut being the most frequent use in the world • Fine cut being having the most fiberglass in its product and the messiest of them all

4. Nicknames on the Street • Dip • Dips • Snacks • Lips • lipper • Candy • Chewsky • Snuff • Pinch • Yopper • Wad • Flab • Backy

5. The 43 Brands of Chewing Tobacco Appalachian Apple Jack Beech Nut Big Mountain Brown's Mule Blood Hound Plug Bowie Bull of the Woods Camel Cannonball Plug Chattanooga Chew Copenhagen Cotton Boll Cougar Days O' Work Durango Gold River Grizzly Husky Kodiak Kayak King BTwist Lancaster Levi Garrett Mail Pouch Morgans Mammoth Cave Oliver Twist Peachy Red Man Redwood Rooster Silver Creek Skoal Southern Pride Springfield Starr Stokers Taylor's Pride WB Extra Long Work Horse

6. Method of use • Place the snuff in between your lip and gum • The tobacco it self puts small cuts in your mouth (fiberglass) • The nicotine is absorbed into the blood stream. • Spit this dark tobacco juice out. • If you where to swallow it then you would have a stomach ache and most likely throw up from it the substances in your stomach. • Finally when the nicotine is in your system and reaches your brain it cause you to have a buzz

7. History of Chewing Tobacco • Scientist believe its been growing since 6000 B.C. • Wasn’t until 1 B.C., American Indians began using tobacco for religious and medicinal practices. • They believed it healed wounds • Was a pain killer • Relieve toothaches • Cure Cancer • Late fifteen century, Christopher Columbus was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from the American Indians • Late sixteenth century, a Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes wrote a book on the medical purposes clamming that tobacco could cure 36 health problems

8. In the middle seventh century, tobacco was finally banned to smoke in public areas in the state of Massachusetts • Mid-nineteenth century when produces used scraps left over from the production of other tobacco products to establish chewing tobacco • It was most known at the time with the "cowboys" of American west • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was the first company to produce chewing tobacco

9. Works in the brain • Chewing tobacco works in the brain by stimulating and releasing neurotransmitters, being dopamine, to produce that pleasurable and motivating • It takes longer to reach the brain than smoking, do to it needs to travel into the blood stream until it hits the brain to function + =

10. Symptoms and Withdrawals • Symptoms that can occur from the use chewing tobacco are: • Decrease of appetite • Boosting of mood and even relieves minor depression • Raise of blood sugar or increase of insulin production • Increase bowel activity • Saliva and phlegm • Increase heart rate • Blood pressure • Sweating • Nausea andDiarrhea • Stimulation of memory and alertness. • Withdrawals • Occur within two to three hours after the last tobacco use and will peak at around two to three days

11. Long Term Effects • Addition to Nicotine • Receding of gums • Sensitive teeth • Tooth decay • Sores, patches, and lumps in mouth • Bad breath, bas taste in mouth • Excess saliva production, drooling • Stained Teeth

12. Psychology Effects • Anxiety • Tension • Restlessness • Frustration • Impatience • Difficult of concentrating • Drowsiness • Headaches • Irritability • Depression

13. Treatments • Treatment that can be done to resolve chewing tobacco are the same as smoking due to the user is trying to treat the Nicotine addition • Supplements like such help the addiction of chewing go away • Gum • Inhalers • Lozenges • nasal spray • Skin patches

14. Health Risk that can occur in the Mouth • Chewing tobacco consist of over 2,000 highly dangerous chemicals • Scientist have proven 28 of them are cancers causing and increase other medical problems • Causes throat or mouth cancer • Enters the blood system causing bacteria to build up and infect the skin or gum causing swelling and variations of tumors • Causes your lips and gums to crack • Leaving them to bleed and causing infection in the mouth and a great amount of pain. • Causes receding of the gum • Causing the teeth to decay and fall out, loss of the jawbone, and worn spots on the teeth • Causes sours, patches and lumps in the mouth

15. Chewing Tobacco in the Major Leagues • Chewing tobacco and smoking tobacco has been affiliated with baseball since the 1840s mainly in the amateur leagues • It was not until the 1860s and 1870s, baseball was brought into the culture of chewing tobacco • Baseball players liked chewing tobacco because it supposedly kept their mouths moist on the duty infields. • The tobacco industry used baseball imagery to advertise cigarettes to young men ads featuring baseball superstars • Major League Baseball last years labored a deal to prevent the use of smokeless tobacco during pre and post-game interviews so young children are not pressured in using it due to their role model baseball players do

16. Statistics • There are estimated 10 million users of chewing tobacco • 3 million being under the age of 21 • within them almost 75% start by the age of 14 • 11% percent oh high school boys and 1.5% high school girls • Over a half a million people pass away due to chewing tobacco or related effects from such product • A typical dip customer spends roughly $910 a year on chewing tobacco, being a five dollar can every two days on average

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