Products That Are Smoked

Big tobacco is also marketing tobacco that is smoked, in new and different ways. Those tobacco products include cigarillos, little cigars and hookahs. Marketing strategies include new flavors of tobacco, cheaper product (because cigars are not subjected to the same high taxes as cigarettes),

Hookah

A hookah is a single or multi-stemmed instrument used for smoking.

 

  • A hookah is a water pipe which is used to smoke a type of tobacco called shisha through cooled water.
  • Shisha is tobacco which has been soaked in honey or molasses making it very moist and sticky. Shisha comes in a variety of flavors.
  • The shisha is heated in a bowl at the top of the hookah and the smoke is filtered through the water in the base, as the smoker inhales through a hose.
  • Using hookah is seen as a social acitivity. Hookah bars are becoming popular in communities with larges colleges or universities.
  • Often thought of as “safer” than traditional smoking because smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, but even though it is cooled down by this process the smoke still contains the same cancer causing carcinogens as traditional smoke.

Cigarillos

  • Cut tobacco wrapped in a tobacco leaf and are not filtered
  • They are smoked like a cigar, meaning they are not meant to be inhaled

Little Cigars

  • Resemble cigarettes in size, shape, packaging and filters
  • Wrapped in a tobacco leaf, like a cigar or cigarillo

E-Cigarettes

Battery powered smokeless device that provides inhaled nicotine to the use in a vaporized solution.

 

 

 

 

 

An e-cigarette;

  • Has three parts
    • nicotine cartridge
    • vaporizer
    • battery
  • Releases nicotine by heating
  • Comes in fruit and candy flavors