Types of Tobacco Products One Can Find by Barkha Pahuja

Types of Tobacco Products One Can Find

Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of disease and death in the world. The market place includes a wide assortment of new tobacco products, with many looking very different from traditional tobacco products. To attract consumers, tobacco companies and tobacco products manufacturers regularly modify their products and introduce novel tobacco products to the market.

Tobacco products carry an increased health risk with them. In addition to highly addictive to nicotine, smokers can also inhale 4800 to 7000 other chemicals depending on what is inside their cigarette. These chemicals are a byproduct of more than 600 different ingredients found in every cigarette and most other tobacco products. These ingredients are cadmium, benzene, arsenic, methanol, formaldehyde, hexamine, and lead.

Cigarette smoking or consuming other tobacco products have been proved to increase the likelihood of cancer affecting all systems and organs in the human body. Consuming tobacco products may cause cancer of nose, mouth, trachea, larynx, esophagus, throat, lungs, liver, stomach, kidneys, bladder, cervix, pancreas, colon, rectum, bone marrow, and blood.

There is a good variety of tobacco products are made available by the tobacco manufacturers or tobacco product manufacturers in the market. These tobacco products were readily available and have a large user base. Some of the tobacco products are:

• Traditional smokeless tobacco products:
There are two main types of smokeless tobacco products found in the market; they are chewing tobacco and moist snuff. Chewing tobacco is cured tobacco in the form of plug, loose-leaf, or twist. And snuff is finely cut or powdered, cured tobacco that can be moist, dry, or packaged in sachets. Snus is a finely ground moist snuff that can be found as loose or packaged.

• Cigarettes:
Cigarettes are a roll of tobacco and are the most widespread means of tobacco delivery. The key components of most cigarettes found in the market are tobacco, a filter, and paper wrapping. Smokers use cigarettes to get nicotine and are exposed to toxic and cancer-causing chemicals that are released when the cigarette is burned. Cigarettes are dominant in most developed and developing countries.

• Cigars, Little Cigars, and Cigarillos:
Cigars are the cured tobacco wraps with leaf tobacco or a substance containing tobacco inside. Generally, cigars vary in size — with smaller sizes they are referred to as little cigars or cigarillos. Large cigars can deliver as much as 2 times more tar, 10 times the nicotine, and more than 5 times the carbon monoxide than a filtered cigarette. Even though cigarettes with characterizing flavors are illegal, there are many products available in the market that look like cigarettes but are labeled as “little cigars,” and some have candy and fruit flavors that appeal to youth adults and adolescents.

• Hookahs:
Hookahs are also a danger to one’s health as cigarettes. On an average hookahs session lasts for 1 hour. During having hookah, a smoker inhales nearly 90,000 ml of smoke. Tobacco in hookahs is heated by charcoal. Studies show that this method of delivery puts smokers at risk of inhaling a much larger amount of harmful carbon monoxide and heavy metals as well as nicotine.

• Bidis:
Bidis are hand-rolled and the tobacco is wrapped in a tendu or a temburni leaf that is native to Asia. These products can be flavored or unflavored.

• Dissolvable Products:
Smokeless tobacco products usually have required spitting or discarding the product remains. But now, there are new tobacco products available that are not smoked and are often called “dissolvables.” These tobacco products can be more easily concealed as no product disposal is needed. They are found as lozenges, sticks, or strips, and may look like candy.

• Electronic Cigarettes:
Electronic cigarettes often resemble traditional cigarettes but these products use a heat source, usually powered by a battery, to turn “e-liquid,” which is a liquid that usually contains nicotine from tobacco and flavorings, into an aerosol that is inhaled by the user.

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