Fact If you suck on tobacco of any kind, it can still harm you. Myth Brushing your teeth after using chew lessens the damage. Fact Even if you brush your teeth or rinse your mouth after using chew, the high sugar content can erode tooth enamel. References 1. Smokeless Tobacco Products , U. Food and Drug Administration, We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits.
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People addicted to nicotine need more of it to get the same feeling as the first time. Many people still believe that smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative to smoking, but this isn't true. Using smokeless tobacco is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes, and can cause serious damage to the body.
Oral cancer cancer of the mouth is the cancer most often linked to smokeless tobacco use. But users also can get cancer in the stomach, the throat, and the bladder because the chemicals from the tobacco get into their digestive systems through their spit. In the most severe cases, problems caused by smokeless tobacco can lead to permanent disfigurement, such as the loss of teeth and even bones in the face. Smokeless tobacco also causes bad breath, yellowish-brown stains on the teeth, and mouth sores in most users.
Quitting is hard, and using smokeless tobacco while trying to quit is common. But don't give up. Tobacco is surprisingly nutritious—but it's also toxic in its pure state , which is why throughout its history, humans have been more interested in the plant as something to smoke rather than something to eat. Native Americans discovered the psychoactive effects of nicotine relatively early in human history. The oldest archaeological evidence of tobacco residue in a smoke pipe dates back years ago —around the same time people in modern Alabama, where the pipe was found, began cultivating foods like sunflower and squash.
It's even possible that the desire to grow tobacco spurred agriculture in the area, even though it was never a food source. We know why Native Americans cultivated the plant—smoking it played an important role in sacred rituals—but how they learned it was something that was enjoyable to smoke in the first place is less clear.
It may be that South American herbalists stumbled upon its dopamine-boosting effects when studying plant life in their environment.
In order to know which plants were poisonous and which had medicinal benefits, herbalists experimented with every plant they could find, and after sniffing ground-up tobacco leaves they may have realized it was something special.
Another possibility is that someone came across a wild tobacco plant that had caught fire accidentally and discovered the pleasure of inhaling the smoke that way.
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