SCIENCE
Health risks
Tobacco
Tobacco is one of the two legal drugs we
are studying.
When we talk about tobacco we talk about:
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Pipes
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Blended cigarretes
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Rolling cigarretes
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Spit tobacco
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Cigars
These two videos can help you understand what is tobacco and which diseases are related to it. Pay attention!
WHAT IS IT?
Tobacco is a plant, the major producers of this tobacco plant are: China, Brazil and India. This plant contains natural amounts of nicotine (an addictive substance).
The leaves of this plant are cured (dried) in order to smash them and put them in the cigarettes or cigars.
During this process, a lot of chemicals are added to the original tobacco.
Let's see some of them:
Collecting the leaves
Curing the leaves
Manufacturing cigarettes
*You can use THIS DICCIONARY to help you with some difficult words.
DISEASES
Tobacco is related to a lot of diseases, let's take a closer look to them:
Moreover, tobacco use is related to certain types of cancer like: lung cancer, mouth cancer, larynx cancer and stomach cancer.