Smokeless tobacco comes in different forms. You may know it as chewing tobacco or snuff. Using tobacco in any form-dipping, chewing, or smoking-is very bad for your health, can turn off friends, and is expensive. 

Using smokeless tobacco can cause cancer, destroying the gums, tongue, throat, or jawbone. But even before cancer develops, changes can occur in your mouth, sometimes within weeks of starting to use smokeless tobacco.  

Your gums and lips can sting, crack, bleed, wrinkle, and get sores and white patches. These white patches may become cancerous. Stopping use of smokeless tobacco can make the white patches disappear.  

Tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that can get you addicted or hooked. After using tobacco for a short time, you need another dip every 20 to 30 minutes to keep the tobacco buzz or high from ending. You can become dizzy, shaky, and grouchy when trying to quit. Many who have used smokeless tobacco for some time have said that it was hard to quit.  

Chewing and dipping may make you feel relaxed. But the nicotine in tobacco causes your blood pressure to go up-bad news for anyone.  

Tobacco juices can permanently damage your gums, causing them to recede and expose the roots of the teeth, making them more sensitive and susceptible to decay. Chewing or dipping may stain your teeth, give you bad breath, affect your ability to taste, and cause worn spots on tooth enamel. Snuff and chewing tobacco make your mouth water all the time, so you have to spit constantly wherever you are.