What are the common street names for nicotine?
You might hear cigarettes referred to as smokes, cigs, or butts. Smokeless tobacco is often called chew, dip, spit tobacco, or snuff. How is nicotine used? Tobacco can be smoked in cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. It can be chewed or, if powdered, sniffed. An alternative to cigarettes is “bidis.” Originally from India, bidis are hand-rolled. In the U.S., bidis are popular with teens because they come in colorful packages with flavor choices. Some teens think that bidis are less harmful than regular cigarettes. But bidis have even more nicotine, which may make people smoke more, causing them to be more harmful to the lungs than cigarettes. How many teens use nicotine? More than 3 and one-half million teens between the ages of 12 and 17 use tobacco-that’s about 15 percent of teens that age. Of those, just over 3 million, or 13 percent, smoke cigarettes. In the U.S., 66.5 million people, or about 29 percent of the population, use tobacco. What are the common effects of nicotine? With each pu
