Tobacco and it's negative effect on your body

What is tobacco?
Tobacco is a plant. The leaf of the tobacco plant can be used for smoking in cigarettes, cigars and pipes. It can also be chewed.

Tobacco Plant Leaves

What does tobacco do to you?

Smoking, breathing the smoke from others smoking or chewing tobacco can cause both lung cancer and heart disease which can hurt and often kill people.

Lung Cancer
What else can tobacco do to you and your body?
Using tobacco can give you bad breath. It can also make your teeth turn yellow. It can make you have more colds and coughs.

Smoking, breathing smoke or chewing tobacco can make it hard to breathe and keep up with your friends when playing sports.

It can also harm your blood.

Diseased Teeth

Are there parts of your body, that you can see, that are effected by smoking?

Tobacco stains and harms your skin.

It can make your clothes smell really bad.

Stained Skin

Do I have to smoke or chew tobacco to get hurt?
If people around you smoke, and you breath it, you can also get sick. This is called "second-hand smoke."

In other words, someone else caused the smoke in the air, but you breathe it and can get sick. Very sick.
Why don't people quit if it is so bad?

Tobacco contains a drug called nicotine. Nicotine makes it hard for people to stop smoking and chewing. We call this an addiction.
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Bibliography:

Tobacco, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9111043/tobacco, 9-20-2006.

Smoking Stinks!, http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/smoking.html, 9-20-2006.

Extreme Smoking Makeover, http://www.tobaccofacts.org/o2zone/makeover.html, 9-20-2006

Revised: 1-12-2007
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