Not health, you are at risk..quit chewing tobacco as soon as possible, before it gets too late.
Health risks of smokeless tobacco are in-numerous.
Be it smoking use of tobacco or non-smoking use of tobacco, it is never a health-hazard free habit. Smokeless tobacco means chewing tobacco. These products do expose people to lower levels of harmful chemicals than tobacco smoke. As said above, with the lower levels of harmful chemicals, chewing tobacco also is not a safe substitute for smoking.
Chewing tobacco has nicotine, which leads to addiction soon. It does contain dozens of chemicals that cause cancer.
Here are the health hazards connected to smokeless tobacco include the following:
Addiction. Smokeless tobacco users might get as much or more nicotine into their bodies just like cigarette smokers. As with smoking, withdrawal from smokeless tobacco usually causes intense cravings, anger along with a depressed mood.
Cancer
The chewing tobacco use and other smokeless tobacco products too raise the risk of mouth cancer, throat cancer and pancreas. Smokeless tobacco has high risk of getting small white patches in the mouth called leukoplakia. These patches gradually turn into cancer. That’s why they sometimes are called precancerous.
Heart disease
Some smokeless tobacco use increases heart rate and blood pressure whereas long-term use of smokeless tobacco increases the risk of dying of heart disease as well as heart stroke.
Dental disease
The sugar as well as irritants in smokeless tobacco products often cause cavities, worn-down teeth surfaces, staining of teeth, stinking breath, gum disease, gums’ receding, bone loss around roots as well as tooth loss.
Pregnancy risk
Using smokeless tobacco when a smoker is in family way, increases the risk of stillbirth, a heart rate issue in infants and their low birth weight.
Poisoning risk
The flavors and candy-like appearance of a few smokeless tobacco products invites children’s attention. It attracts them, which is not advisable at all. Consuming these products can clearly cause nicotine poisoning. In children nicotine poisoning causes nausea, weakness, vomiting, shaking, trouble breathing, coma, and even death.
Remember, not health, you yourself are at risk if you consume smokeless tobacco.
