Tobacco
Tobacco is an addictive and deadly drug! Tobacco is a plant which it’s leaves are dried then smoked or chewed. Some of the common forms of Tobacco are: Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, Smokeless as spit, chew or dip. There are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke and many are poisonous such as: Ammonia (toilet cleaner), Formaldehyde (funeral preservative), Cadmium (battery chemical), Butane (cigarette lighter fluid), Vinyl chloride (plastic pipe), DDT (insecticide), Arsenic (poison), Methanol (rocket fuel), Carbon monoxide, Naphthylamine (Known to cancer-causing substance), Acetone...
Read MoreDrug Free Pledge Cards
Isn’t it time to take a personal stand and pledge for yourself to abstain from Drugs and Alcohol? bove are two pledge cards which you can printout and sign. It’s time to live the vibrant, health and happy life that God intended for you! Make the choice and feel the difference! Also here are two links to PDF files which you can print out and share with your friends and family if you wish. Orange Drug Free Youth Promise Business Card and Green Drug Free Youth Promise Business Card ...
Read MoreMarijuana
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, and leaves of the plant Cannabis sativa. A stronger form of marijuana called hashish (hash) looks like brown or black cakes or balls. The many street names for marijuana include pot, herb, weed, grass, Jane, reefer, dope, and ganja. Marijuana is typically smoked in cigarettes (joints or spliffs), hollowed-out cigars (blunts), pipes (bowls), or water pipes (bongs). Some people mix it into food or brew it as a tea. Short-Term Effects The main active chemical in...
Read MoreCigarettes
The health effects of tobacco are the circumstances, mechanisms, and factors of tobacco consumption on human health. Epidemiological research has been focused primarily on cigarette tobacco smoking, which has been studied more extensively than any other form of consumption. Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death in the US and worldwide. Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, high blood pressure, and various forms of cancer. The effects...
Read MorePrescriptions
Some people experiment with prescription drugs because they think they will help them have more fun, lose weight, fit in, and even study more effectively. Prescription drugs can be easier to get than street drugs: Family members or friends may have them. But prescription drugs are also sometimes sold on the street like other illegal drugs. But wherever you get them be sure read the warnings, prescription drugs kill over twice the number of people than all other illegal drugs combined! A 2009 survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that prescription drug abuse is...
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