Tobacco
What it looks like Tobacco comes from the dried leaves of the tobacco plant. It is found in cigarettes, cigars and other products.

Picture of Cigarette
Top Facts
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If you use Tobacco it can make you:

  • Feel light headed
  • Feel as though you are more relaxed
  • Feel dizzy
  • Feel sick and throw up
  • Feel lacking in energy
  • Become ill much more often

It can also make your:

  • Fingers yellow
  • Breath smell
  • Teeth yellow
  • Body and clothes smell
  • Sense of taste worsens
  • Sense of smell worsens
  • Friends not want to be around you because you smell
  • Someone you fancy not want to go near you as you smell and taste bad
  • Muscles weaker
Important Stuff

Bad news - 1 in 2 smokers die from a smoking related illness.  One person dies from a smoking related disease every 4 minutes in the UK. That’s 330 people a day. It’s the same as a Jumbo Jet crashing every day.

Yuck - Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, including arsenic, tar, ammonia hydrogen cyanide and nicotine.

Hard to stop - Nicotine is a physically addictive drug and is one of the reasons people find it so difficult to give up smoking.  It also becomes part of people’s lives.  When they don’t smoke it is weird as they get so used to doing it.

Banned - It is illegal to smoke in enclosed public and certain other places.