* Smokeless tobacco (chew) and cigarettes are equally addictive.

* The amount of nicotine absorbed from smokeless tobacco is about 2x the amount delivered by a cigarette.

* Smokeless tobacco users who dip or chew 8–10 times per day may be exposed to the same amount of nicotine or more as persons who smoke 20 cigarettes a day.

* Chewing is linked to receding gums that can lead to cavities.

* Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents.

* Chew, or spit tobacco, causes cancer of the mouth.

* About 50% of chewers have oral lesions in their mouths.

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* There is no evidence to indicate that bidis or cloves are safe alternatives to conventional cigarettes.

* Research shows that smoking bidis is linked to many cancers, like cancers of the mouth, lung, stomach and throat.

* Bidis have higher concentrations of nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide than conventional cigarettes sold in the United States.

* Smoking cloves delivers more nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide than regular cigarettes.

A typical 1-hour-long hookah smoking session involves inhaling 100–200 times the volume of smoke inhaled with a single cigarette. Hookah smokers may absorb higher concentrations of the toxins found in cigarette smoke — like carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and cancer-causing compounds.

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* Smoking cigarettes makes your hair, clothes and breath stink really bad.

* Smoking causes premature aging:
o Smoking is linked to premature wrinkles.
o Smoking causes early aging of your lungs.

* Smoking cigarettes causes a yellow-brown discoloration of the fingernails.

* Smoking can cause hairy tongue.

* 80% of teens would rather date a nonsmoker.

* Teens who smoke may cough, have asthma attacks more often or develop
other respiratory problems leading to more sick days, more doctor bills
and   poorer athletic performance.

* Smoking cigarettes can cause dirty lungs.

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Confirm your MOB pledge.

(Say the following out loud, really loud, then check “AGREE.”)

I solemnly swear that as a member of the No Stank You MOB, I will not let tobacco turn my mouth into a 24-hour gag factory that can’t be helped by even six packs of the strongest gum they sell, even the stuff you need a prescription to get — if that even exists.

I won’t make my lungs look like they got stuck in a chimney for three years, then dragged behind a swamp buggy for 83 miles, then eaten and coughed up by a stray cat. I realize that over 50% of tobacco chewers have oral lesions and 80% of teens would rather date a nonsmoker.

And that smoking can cause “Black Hairy Tongue,” which is even more stanktacular than it sounds. I will not make my clothes stink like funky-foul smoke stank so that, when my friends or a hot male/female gets near me, they won’t wish their nose had been lopped off in a weed-whacker accident.

And if I even look like I’m thinking about breaking my MOB pledge, my fellow MOBsters have the right to yank on the little hairs on my neck as many times as it takes for me to snap out of it. And it’s my duty to do the same for them. Forever and ever that’s it.