Snuff and its effects

Hello fellow steemits, am glad to share this piece that I finding very essential for all. Snuff is a form of smokeless tobacco meant to be inhaled through the nose or chewed or placed in the mouth to produce saliva. If you ever think that smoking cigarettes isn’t healthy but snuff otherwise call "Sundu/"Sundi" in Dagbani is safe, think again my dear reader.

Snuff is a tobacco product which contains harmful and addictive chemicals that can raise your risk of many health problems.

To produce snuff, tobacco is dried and finely ground. There are two main types of snuff dried and moist. To use dried snuff, you inhale the ground tobacco into your nasal cavity. To use moist snuff, you put the tobacco between your lower lip or cheek and gum. The nicotine from the tobacco is absorbed through the lining of your nose or mouth. Like cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco, snuff is a dangerous and addictive product.

Snuff is not only highly addictive, but also harmful to your health. You might think that using snuff isn’t as dangerous as smoking because you’re not inhaling smoke into your lungs. However, snuff can still negatively impact your body. Like other forms of tobacco, snuff contains cancer-causing chemicals. It can raise your risk of several types of cancer, including nose and sinus cancers, oral cancers, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer.

Using snuff also raises your risk of other conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attack, stroke. If you’re pregnant, it increases the chances of premature birth and stillbirth.