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Educate your audience about the dangers of nicotine with this informative “Tobacco: How it Affects the Body” Pamphlet. A SAMHSA survey shows that 60% of young people who binge drink and 47% of young people who smoke also use illicit drugs as compared with 5% for non-smokers and drinkers. Tobacco, while by no means harmless, is a common pathway to the abuse of harder substances. Help prevent young people from using this “gateway” drug and increase the odds they’ll live happier, healthier, drug free lives.

This brochure provides an overview of tobacco’s damaging effects on a person’s body. It opens with a look at the expensive and damaging effects tobacco use has on this country. Including a brief history of tobacco in the United States. It also discusses the recent activity of class action lawsuits, advertising bans, and product labeling issues. An explanation of nicotine and other chemicals in tobacco is given as well as how those chemicals affect a user’s body.

The brochure also includes detailed information about lung cancer and respiratory diseases, such as emphysema. Including the link between smoking and heart disease. Readers will learn about nicotine addiction and the incredibly addictive power of tobacco. The effects of secondhand smoke on others are also presented. In conclusion, the pamphlet ends with a call to the reader to avoid tobacco use for their health, wealth and the well being of others.

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This pamphlet is also available in Spanish.

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