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Smoking & Tobacco Use Affects Your Oral Health

                                                Hmmmmm. You're probably wondering how can tobacco affect anything that has to do with my mouth. Weelllll let me tell you what's up! Not only is smoking and tobacco use bad for your body, but it is also bad for your oral health. I don't know about you all but I don't play about my oral health, especially because I have braces. Your mouth and your teeth are your presence and using tobacco can mess up your teeth. You see the man in the picture? Yes, that's how your teeth will look! You know smoking is bad for your health so there should be no surprise that smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco are also harmful to your oral health. For one, tobacco products can cause bad breath, but that is only the beginning. Other risks of chewing tobacco and smoking cigarettes can cause stained ...
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Types of Tobacco Products & Ingredients

There are many different types of tobacco products and there are also different ingredients in these tobacco products. According to Tobacco Free Life , smoking tobacco products carry with them an increased health risk. In addition to highly  addictive nicotine , smokers can also inhale anywhere from 4,800 to 7,000 other chemicals – depending on what is inside their cigarette! These chemicals are a byproduct of over 600 different ingredients found in every cigarette and most other tobacco products. Knowing about these different tobacco products and what is actually inside of these products is very important. It is good to know what ingredients are in something because an individual can be allergic to what is in the product. So, let me school you on these tobacco products and the ingredients within these products. Like I said before, there are many different types of tobacco products. We have cigarettes, which is a roll of tobacco. About ...
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Causes of Smoking

Introduction According to CDC , c igarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers in general.  This is something that really bothers me because I know a lot of people who smoke. Kowing that all these things can happen to someone just from smoking is really scary. The risk of these factors will lower if smokers quit smoking. Smoking & Death Believe it or not, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of death in the U.S. With that being said, people really should stop smoking. Knowing that smoking is the leading cause of death in our state, people are just killing themselves. There are more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States related to smoking.  There are many other leading causes of death such as HIV, vehicle accidents, drug abuse, alcohol use and much more but smoking causes more deaths than all of these combined. Diseases One Can Get From Smoking You can get a car...
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Introduction

My topic is Smoking & Tobacco Use. I chose this topic because I am a college student and my age group smokes and uses a lot of tobacco products. I know a lot of people who smoke and use tobacco products and I would love to be educated on this topic. I want to learn more about how smoking affects the body and what products are in tobacco. I want to know the causes and effects of smoking and why people still smoke if smoking can kill you. I also want to learn more about why smoking becomes addictive to individuals.
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