Should Smoless Tabacco be Allowed in School?

Although dip or smokeless tobacco is bad and can sometimes cause cancer in extreme cases, it has many beneficial uses. Teenagers in grades 11 and 12 should be allowed to use dip with no penalties, if they can buy it themselves they are assuming responsibility for the risks. They could have their parent sign a note of approval to give to the school. It’s really the parents’ decision on what their child can and can’t do.

In my opinion if you are in the legal age to carry and use dip in public then you should be allowed to use it in school, but only at certain times. During lunch or in the parking lot outside are some examples of “smokeless tobacco zones.” Dip can help relieve the stress that school can exert on a student, with the benefit of stress relief the student can focus on the subject at hand better than before. And if used in the correct amount dip can cure headaches and tooth aches, Dips medicinal properties are endless.

Older citizens that are being treated for alztimers can benefit from the nicotine from smokeless tobacco. It’s easier than cigarettes because most of them would be on some sort of breathing machine, and the smoke would only make it harder for them to breath. There are some people in India who use dry powdered tobacco to help keep their teeth clean. Although tobacco has been known to cause bad teeth, if used in the right amount dry snuff can help get rid of any bad breath or deadly germs in your mouth.

Dip can help increase focus or help remember things from what you studied earlier. It is the same concept as if you chew the same flavor gum when you study and when you take a test. Dip can also help relieve stress from earlier events. It can clear your mind and help you focus more on the subject at hand ins...

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... tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes, instead of using snuff they are filling their lungs with water vapor. Says “Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.” Any kind of nicotine addiction starts at a young age, but nicotine levels in smokeless tobacco are insignificant compared to a cigarette or electronic cigarette. Kids are still turning to smoking electronic cigarettes because most school handbooks say nothing about electronic cigarettes. The “National Cancer Institute” says that kids and adults are more likely to get lung cancer from cigarettes and/or electronic cigarettes then cancer from smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco can help smokers quit smoking, it seems unlikely but there are reports of people using dip to quit smoking and then they stop dipping says “U.S. Department of Health and Human Services” so this proves that smokeless tobacco isn’t all bad.