Tobacco is prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant, which contains the stimulant alkaloid nicotine. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking but can also be consumed through other methods like chewing or dipping. Tobacco use is a risk factor for many diseases, especially affecting the heart, liver, lungs, and many cancers, and was named the single greatest cause of preventable death by the World Health Organization in 2008.

1. TOBACCO

2. WHAT IS TOBACCO?
• Tobacco is a product prepared from the
leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.
The plant is part of the genus Nicotiana and
of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.
While more than 70 species of tobacco are
known, the chief commercial crop is N.
tabacum.The more potent variant N.
rustica is also used around the world.

3. WHAT CONTAIN?
Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, which is a
stimulant. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used
for smoking in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco,
and flavored shisha tobacco.They can be also
consumed as snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping
tobacco and snus.

4. WHAT ORGANS AFECTED?
Tobacco use is a risk factor for many
diseases, especially those affecting
the heart, liver, and lungs, as well as
many cancers. In 2008, theWorld
Health Organization named tobacco
as the world's single greatest cause
of preventable death.

5. WHAT IS MY OPINION?
• Smoking is very bad for the health, because, occurs a voice more serious,
and causes brain damage. Also makes the brain later more to react to
answer, that tobacco causes many diseases and in extreme cases death.