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Tobacco

Did you know that chemicals are used to help tobacco grow? There are also a lot of chemicals in tobacco. The

most popular chemical in tobacco is nicotine. When nicotine is in its pure substance its physical characteristics are:

colorless, odorless, and an oily liquid. Its chemical characteristics are: it reacts with most acids to form salts. Nicotine is

a chemical in tobacco that makes it addicting. Large amounts of nicotine, in severe cases, can cause poisoning or near

death.

Nicotine's scientific name is 3-(-methyl-2-pyrolidinyl) pyridine, and its empirical formula is C10H14N2. Its molecular

weight is 162.23, and its boiling point is 477° F (247° C). Tobacco in a cigarette can cause lung cancer. Lung cancer

occurs when abnormal cells grow uncontrollably in the lung or lungs. Smoking leads to exposure to substances such as

asbestos, radiation, tar, soot, and silica. Smoking can cause cancer and can also cause harm to your health. Tar is also in

tobacco.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Yes, it’s the same tar they use to make roads. There are more than 4,800 chemicals in tobacco. Other than

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">smoking tobacco you can also chew it. Smoking tobacco causes second hand smoke and it can be as harmful as

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">smoking the actual cigarette, pipe, etc. Chewing tobacco can come in many different forms. The first form: “flat plug,” a

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">compressed rectangular cake of bright tobacco, sweetened lightly or not at all. The second form: “navy,” <span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">a flat

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">rectangular cake of burley tobacco, highly flavored with either licorice, rum, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, honey, or some

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">other spice or sweetener. The third form: “twist,” tough, dark tobacco rolled and braided into ropes. The fourth form:

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">“fine-cut,” shredded, stripped leaf, not compressed, and of expensive blend. The fifth form: “scrap,” cigar by-products

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">consisting of loose leaf ends and clippings.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The chemical that I talked about earlier in this paper, was nicotine. It is a really addictive drug. Therefore, if you

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">get addicted you're going to want to keep smoking cigarettes. Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">annually in health care expenses. Just think about it, if we all stop smoking we could save $150 billion dollars and use it

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">to better America. Here's another fun fact: women account for 39% of all smoking deaths. That is a lot if you really think

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">about it.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Another product tobacco is used in is called creamy snuff. Creamy snuff is a tobacco paste, consisting of tobacco,

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor. It is also sold in a toothpaste tube. It is marketed mainly to women

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">in India. It is often used to clean teeth. You're supposed to let the past linger in your mouth before rinsing. Even though

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">this product is used to clean your teeth, it is also addictive. So, no matter what form tobacco is in, it's an addictive drug

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">because it contains nicotine.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Do you want to know something crazy about cigarettes? Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">of urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes. Nicotine takes only 10 seconds to get to the brain once inhaled. Each day

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">3,000 children smoke their first cigarette. 20% of American teens smoke. Americans start smoking at a young age.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">They all smoke despite the knowledge that it is addictive and can lead to disease and or cancer.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Most people think second hand smoke is a small thing, but it's not. 3,000 nonsmoking adults die of diseases caused by

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">exposure to second hand smoke every year. What most people don't know is second hand smoke causes coughing,

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">phlegm, chest discomfort, and reduced lung function in nonsmokers. Infants and children under 18 months of age suffer

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">some 150,000 to 300,000 respiratory tract infections. Second hand smoke victims suffer from asthma. If smokers want

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">to ruin their lungs and body they should go ahead and do it, but they should do it on their own time so that they wont

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">affect others around them.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;">When you smoke your heart speeds up, from 10 to 20 beats per minute. You're blood pressure could also get really high. The

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;">temperature of your skin drops by 6 degrees Fahrenheit. This happens because the blood is rushing to the heart, where it will be

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;">needed in a real emergency or crisis. The reason heavy smokers cough a lot is because the lungs are struggling to clear out dirt and

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;">other stuff that's not supposed to be in there.

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Maybe our country, even world, would be much better if we all stopped using tobacco. Maybe it wont. It could

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">get better because people would stop dying due to the chemicals in tobacco, and there might even be less pollution. It

<span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">could get worse because we make a lot of our profits selling tobacco.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">MLA: Works Cited

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