why does chewin' make you sick?
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Originally Posted by theologian
I suppose that the literal answer to that question would be that your body is telling you it does not like what you are trying to make it do.. Perhaps listening to it, would be wise.
I've chewed a couple of times and didn't get sick, though I remember the one time I had one heck of a buzz going on. I just never got addicted though, because when I was around 13 or so I read of a HS athlete who dipped a can a day for about 18 months, and was dead about a year later--after he had the bottom jaw amputated to remove the tumor. It came back. Tongue, jaw, throat cancer is NASTY stuff.
Now I don't smoke and I don't chew or dip. I've got too much around me and too many good people to live for.
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ooo good thread. im 19, been dippin for a year anda half. depending on what ya dip, the high amts of nicotine will knock ya on ur butt (try cope snuff) but if ya happen to swallow any spit, that'll make ya throw up if ya arent used to swalloin it. i actually did a report for english class proving that dippin/chewin certain brands is actually up to 90% safer than smoking.
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Yea, and shooting yourself in the foot is 99% safer than shooting yourself in the head.
Disgusting, dirty habit, unhealthy habit. You can dance all around it and you can compensate for the ill feelings you get but you are fooling yourself and needlessly jeopardizing your health.
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Disgusting, dirty habit, unhealthy habit. You can dance all around it and you can compensate for the ill feelings you get but you are fooling yourself and needlessly jeopardizing your health.
Patooey.
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cope snuff people at my school will dip that during class alot of 10th graders dip and some 11th and 12th and some will swallow or spit in a pepsi bottle and timberwolf striaght i was dipping that at school and gave me a bad buzz i got very dizzy but good thing i wasnt in class at the time.
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What I've learned is just put in a chew, but don't bite it as much as you normally would. Just let it sit in your cheek and give it a little bite once the sweet sweet flavor is flavor going away. It'll burn a lil at first, but you'll get used to it. Good luck, and I think its best to rotate between cigarettes, chew, and dip. Best to have kinda bad lungs, a little worn lip, and a slightly thin cheek than having jet black lungs, dentures and a missing lip, or a missing jaw.
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From: TX
Originally Posted by 85e150six4mtod
Yea, and shooting yourself in the foot is 99% safer than shooting yourself in the head.
Yes it is bad stuff and is bad for you, glad I stopped, was able to do it cold turkey as well as smoking. But he just asked us why he is getting sick I dont think we should give him the 3rd degree.
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I've seen a cigarette described as a white object with a fire on one end and a fool on the other, and any person with even a modicum of good sense will know that eliminating the paper and fire and placing that poisonous crap directly in their mouth is also a foolish act. Yet the question is... does a foolish act a fool make? Some of the smartest people I've known have smoked and some chewed.... hard to understand.
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I'm a straight A and high B student in 10th grade, and it was a bad decision on my part to start smoking. It was 5 years ago and my first one was a Marlboro Medium. Me and my friend stole two from his brother, and in the process of finding somewhere to smoke it, the filter broke off mine, and i still smoked it. Well it was kinda like Lays chips - you can't have just one. Its a bad habit but it will be a good story to tell my kids when I eventually have some.
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The reason you get light headed is because of something called the nicotinic effect. It has been shown that a tiny amount of nicotine is good for you, the amount in a cig or dip is too much by far. Regardless, that first smoke you have after awhile, or the first one period is starting the nicotinic effect. It promotes blood flow through the body, particularly tiny capilarries (veins) that make your head and body feel lighter when an influx of fresh blood is felt. That's why you always feel it the most after it's been awhile since your last cigarette.