Category:
Stimulants.
Commercial and Street Names:
Bidis, chew, cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, spit tobacco.
How Administered:
Smoked, snorted, taken in snuff and spit tobacco.
Intoxication Effects and Potential Health Consequences:
Increased heart rate, blood pressure, metabolism; feelings of exhilaration, energy, increased mental alertness, tolerance, addiction; rapid or irregular heart beat; reduced appetite, weight loss, heart failure. Additional effects attributable to tobacco exposure - adverse pregnancy outcomes, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer.
