NEW EMERGING TOBACCO PRODUCTS TOBACCO DEADLIER THAN EVER
NEW EMERGING TOBACCO PRODUCTS TOBACCO: DEADLIER THAN EVER
BEWARE! There is a dangerous designer drug on the streets that is killing people every day. It kills more people than Alcohol, Meth, Heroin, Cocaine, Homicide, Suicide, Drunk Driving and AIDS combined….
Its Highly Addictive! This drug is more addictive than Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth! Most users start before they are 18 and become users for the rest of their life.
ITS TOBACCO, BUT IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THIS!
Cigarettes are not just chopped up tobacco leaves wrapped in paper. The cigarettes and tobacco products manufactured today are sophisticated devices technologically designed for addiction
Today’s tobacco is a designer drug There are over 600 added ingredients in tobacco that are designed to: • Make the products more addictive • Make the products less harsh, so it is easier to inhale smoke or vapor • Make the products taste good • Make products attractive to youth (by adding flavors such as strawberry, cherry, grape, orange, coconut, vanilla, pineapple, licorice, chocolate, cinnamon, clove, cocoa, and coffee) • We ask you, “Do adult users care about flavors? ”
Many of the same ingredients in. methamphetamine are found in today’s tobacco Such as cadmium, acetone, toluene and ammonia.
Smokers and chewers take in dangerous chemicals • Every time a person inhales a cigarette, they take in approximately 7, 000 chemicals. • About 70 of these chemicals are carcinogens – proven to cause cancer. • Chewing tobacco has 10 times the amount of nitrosamines (cancer causing chemicals) as cigarettes. • But Tobacco Companies could not stop here…………. . .
A New Fad Emerges New Products Abound: Tobacco Companies find new ways to create addicts earlier. • E-Cigarettes • Hookahs/E- Hookah’s • Dissolvables • Inhalers • Patches • Gums • Lozenges • Heaters • Fizz • Water
E-Cigarette Use Double Among Youth From 2011 -2012 • E-cigarette use more than doubled among U. S. middle and high school students from 2011 -2012 • Reports of ever using an e-cigarette rose from 4. 7% in 2011 to 10% in 2012 • Past month use rose from 1. 5% to 2. 8% • In 2012 1. 78 million middle and high school students nationwide had tried e-cigarettes • Its now in our schools and amongst our youth • In the 2013 CHKS, 28% of 11 graders, 21% of 9 th graders and 7% of 7 th graders in Willows report to using electronic cigarettes or other nicotine delivery devices at sometime in their life. • In the 2013 CHKS, 17% of 11 graders, 10% of 9 th graders and 2% of 7 th graders in Orland report to using electronic cigarettes or other nicotine delivery devices at sometime in their life. • In the 2013 CHKS, 8% of 11 graders, 8% of 9 th graders and 0% of 7 th graders in Hamilton City report to using electronic cigarettes or other nicotine delivery devices at sometime in their life.
E-Cigarettes • • Vaporizes liquid nicotine Varying degrees of potency Impact on health still to be determined $500 m sales in 2012 (still only. 05% tobacco industry) 700, 000 – 1. 5 million users Not regulated the same as cigarettes Lots of myths surrounding e-cigarettes THEY ARE NOT REGULATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
Could you spot a E-Cigarette or Hooka Pen?
A Look Inside
“Juice” or Vaping Liquid May Contain • • Formaldehyde Diethylene Glycol Nickel Chromium Cadmium Lead Fine and Ultrafine Particles • VOCs • Heavy Metals • • Silicate Particles Acetaldehyde Acrolein Benzene Isoprene Nicotine Touline
Is It Only Harmless Water Vapor. . . E-cigarette Vapor • Nicotine / Variability • Propylene glycol • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) • Tobacco Specific Carcinogens (TSNAs) • Heavy Metals Including Silicate particles • New Language: Second-Hand Vaping
Levels of carcinogens and toxicants in ECigarette Vapor • The level of the toxicants were 9 -450 times lower than in cigarette smoke, yet still these researchers found: • • Formaldehyde Acrolein Toluene Heavy metals: nickel, cadmium and lead
E-Cigarettes. Do you know what they look like?
Hookah and E-Hookah They may not contain tobacco. But they are still a drug delivery system. And considered drug paraphernalia.
They’re decorative, modern and camouflaged
Reduced Exposure Products
Questions? ? ? Glenn County Friday Night Live Partnership Glenn STEP 311 S. Villa Willows, CA 530 -934 -6575 x 3175 www. glenncoe. org
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