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.
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or a dental emergency. The staff will do everything it can to see you as soon as
reasonably possible.
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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
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