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Tobacco and Your Health

• Don’t get trapped. Nicotine in cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco is addictive.
• Nicotine narrows your blood vessels and puts added strain on your heart.
• Smoking can wreck lungs and reduce oxygen available for muscles used during sports.
• Smokers suffer shortness of breath (gasp!) almost 3 times more often than nonsmokers.
• Smokers run slower and can’t run as far, affecting overall athletic performance.
• Cigars and chewing tobacco are NOT safe alternatives.

Tobacco and How You Look

• Yuck! Tobacco smoke makes hair and clothes stink.
• Tobacco stains teeth and causes bad breath.
• Even short-term use of chewing tobacco can cause cracked lips, white spots, sores, and bleeding in the mouth.
• Surgery to remove oral cancers caused by tobacco use can lead to serious deformities in the face.
• Sean Marcee, a high school star athlete who used chewing tobacco, died of oral cancer when he was 19 years old.

Each year, smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, car crashes, heroin, cocaine, murders, suicides, and fires—combined!

Tobacco and Your Money

• Just smoking one pack a day can cost $1,000 a year! That’s 72 CDs, 125 movies, or 800 gallons of gas!

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