Consumer Infomation Center Other Drug Table

Cigarettes, cigars, pipe, smokeless tobacco (chew, dip, snuff)

• Headache, muscle weakness, abdominal pain
• Severe mood swings and violent behavior
• Numbness and tingling of hands and feet
• Decrease or loss of sense of smell
• Nausea
• Nosebleeds
• Liver, lung, and kidney damage
• Dangerous chemical imbalances in the body
• Fatigue, lack of coordination
• Loss of appetite
• Decreases in heart and respiratory rates
• Hepatitis or peripheral neuropathy from, long-time use

• Bloodshot eyes
• Dry mouth and throat
• Impaired or reduced comprehension
• Altered sense of time
• Reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination, such as driving a car
• Paranoia
• Intense anxiety or panic attacks
• Altered cognition, making acquisition of new information difficult
• Impairments in learning, memory, perception, and judgment-difficulty speaking, listening effectively, thinking, retaining knowledge, problem solving, and forming concepts

• Liver cancer
• Sterility
• Masculine traits in women and feminine traits in men
• Aggression
• Depression
• Acne
• Mood swings

• Addiction
• Heart and cardiovascular disease
• Cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, and mouth
• Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
• Spontaneous abortion, pre-term delivery, and low birth weight

Hundreds of legal household products can be sniffed or "huffed" to get high.

All inhalants can be toxic.