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Courtesy photo Tribal Elder Chewescla (William) DePoe meets the University of Washington Huskies mascot, Dubs, at the Apple Cup game on Nov. 29, 2013. editor’s note: Chewescla DePoe was incorrectly identified in the December issue of Siletz News. He is the uncle of Cynthia A. DePoe. Contact the Siletz Community Dental Clinic if you experience dental pain or a dental emergency. The staff will do everything it can to see you as soon as reasonably possible. Morning heck-in time is Monday-Thursday from 8:30-9 a.m. and Friday from 10-10:30 a.m. Afternoon check-in time is Monday-Friday from 1-1:30 p.m. Smoking, con’t from previous page Hundreds of ingredients are used in manufacturing cigarettes to make them more acceptable to the consumer. Addi- tives make cigarettes milder and easier to inhale, improve taste, prolong burning and increase shelf life. Laboratory analyses have shown that tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Of these, hundreds are toxic and more than 70 are known carcinogens (cancer-causing). At this time, CDC does not provide a list of all chemicals found in tobacco smoke; however, the Smoking & Tobacco Use website does provide information about many of these substances. Resources Title: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statis- tics/sgr/2010/index.htm Title: Reducing Tobacco Use: Tobacco Products. Source: CDC – cdc. gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2000/ highlights/tobacco/index.htm 6. what ingredients are found in smokeless tobacco? There are three types of smokeless tobacco products: chewing tobacco, dry snuff and moist snuff. Chewing tobacco is made from tobacco leaves with the stems removed. Snuff is made from the tobacco leaf and stem. Sweeteners and flavorings typically are added to both products. Like cigarettes and cigars, smokeless tobacco contains nicotine, an addictive drug found naturally in tobacco. An aver- age dose of smokeless tobacco contains at least twice the amount of nicotine found in the average cigarette. In addition to nicotine, smokeless tobacco contains tobacco-specific nitro- samines (TSNAs), which are potent cancer-causing agents. Studies indicate that snuff contains higher levels of TSNAs than chewing tobacco. Smokeless tobacco products also contain other toxic substances, such as polonium 210 and formaldehyde. Other additives found in smokeless tobacco include salts, such as sodium carbonate and ammonium carbonate, and other abrasive matter that may wear the surface of the teeth. Some products con- tain microscopic abrasives, which speed the absorption of nicotine and carcinogens into the cell membranes. Resources CDC Smoking & Tobacco Use web- site: Tobacco Ingredient Reporting – cdc. gov/tobacco/basic_information/tobacco_ industry/reporting/index.htm National Cancer Institute website: Smokeless Tobacco – dccps.nci.nih.gov/ tcrb/less_default.html Title: Smoking and Tobacco Con- trol Monograph 2: Smokeless Tobacco or Health: An International Perspec- tive. Source: National Cancer Institute – cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/mono- graphs/2/index.html 7. what are “fire-safe” cigarettes? Fire-safe or self-extinguishing ciga- rettes are cigarettes designed to stop burning if they are not puffed on regularly. Fire-safe cigarettes were developed to help prevent fires and fire-related inju- ries resulting from improper disposal of smoking materials. In the United States, smoking materials are the leading cause of fire-related deaths, accounting for more than one of every four fire deaths. Resources Title: Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses–United States, 1997-2001. Source: CDC – http://iier. isciii.es/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ mm5425a1.htm Title: Fire Deaths and Injuries: Fact Sheet. Source: CDC – cdc.gov/ncipc/ factsheets/fire.htm Title: The Smoking-Material Fire Problem. Source: National Fire Protection Association, Fire Analysis and Research Division – nfpa.org/assets/files//PDF/ ossmoking.pdf 8. Are “light” cigarettes and other reduced-risk tobacco products really safer to use? All cigarettes are harmful to health, regardless of their taste, smell, label or packaging color. There is no such thing as a safe cigarette. The terms “light” (or “lite”) and “ultra-light” refer to cigarettes that deliver less tar or nicotine in standard- ized machine measurements. Studies have found that smokers who use these cigarettes do not reduce their risk for developing smoking-related cancers and other diseases, that switching to light ciga- rettes does not help smokers quit and that switching to light cigarettes may actually decrease the motivation to quit. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into law in 2009, prohibits the use of the terms “light,” “low,” “mild” and other similar descriptors in tobacco product labels or advertising. Prohibiting the use of terms like “light,” “low” and “mild” is an important step to help protect the public health. Many smokers mistakenly believe that cigarettes marketed with these descriptors cause fewer health problems than other cigarettes. Resources Title: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statis- tics/sgr/2010/index.htm Title: The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Source: CDC – gov/tobacco/ data_statistics/sgr/2004/index.htm Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids website: “Safer” Cigarettes and Tobacco Products – tobaccofreekids.org/research/ factsheets/index.php?CategoryID=26 Title: Hope or Hazard? Source: Trans- disciplinary Tobacco Use Research Cen- ter. University of Minnesota – tturc.umn. edu/documents/hope_or_hazard-3.pdf January 2014 • SiletzNews • 7
