transcript: SE SWAT Spit Video
Text: SWAT the SE Regions Presents The Smokeless Tobacco Project
Video: Male youth tearing out ad from a magazine and placing ad on bulletin board.
Text: 7-Time, Al-around, world champion rodeo cowboy with picture of a cowboy calf roping.
Video: Male youth standing in front of fence with tobacco ads. Male youth standing at horse corral pulling smokeless tobacco out of his back pocket.
Text: My horse, my rope, and my Copenhagen.
Text: USST Sponsorships
Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association
Professional Bull Rider Association
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association
Professional Women’s Rodeo Association
Women’s Professional Rodeo Association
Video: Shows smokeless tobacco products and candy and gum products.
Text: Why is it flavored like candy???
Text: What teens think!
Video: Teen interview with teen female. Do you use spit tobacco? No, I do not use spit tobacco. Why? Because it’s gross, it causes cancer and my boyfriend told me I couldn’t. Interview with two female teens. Do you all use spit tobacco? No way. Why? Because it makes your teeth yellow. It’s bad for you. It’s gross.
Text: A doctors perspective…
Video – Hi. I’m Dr. Rick Judge. (doctor is sitting in chair). I’m a pathologist. I look at the tissues that come from biopsies of people’s mouths after they have been using smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco is a known cause of cancer of the mouth, the tongue and of the gums (view of mouth with cancer). Cancer in young people will often times be more aggressive, it will grow faster, it will be much more difficult to treat and the mortality rate is usually much higher in younger people when they get most types of cancer. This is, I believe especially true for cancer of the mouth and throat.
Video: Interview with female teen. Do you use smokeless tobacco? No. Why? Because it’s nasty and it like gives you cancer and I don’t want cancer. Ok. Thank you.
Video: (Dr. Doug Auid, dentist). Hello I’ve been asked today to talk today about spit tobacco, also known as smokeless tobacco and I would like to go over from a dental standpoint some of the things that I’ve noticed in my practice. Spit tobacco like cigarettes contains at least 28 known carcinogens or cancer causing agents. And needless to say if you have that many cancer causing agents we see a fair number of cancer cases relating to that. Also some of the other dental effects of tobacco and more specifically spit tobacco would be the fact that it makes the gum tissue recede which exposes the root surface of the teeth. When the root surfaces of the teeth are exposed the teeth become more sensitive to hot and cold things and become generally more irritable to the patient. But obviously the most serious ramification of smokeless tobacco is oral cancer and I have not seen any patients that dip or chew tobacco that I have not seen some change in the oral tissues. It starts out with a sort of a rolling or wrinkling of the tissue and a slight change in the color or texture of the tissue. Almost every person that dips or chews tobacco has that change. Oral cancer is a very deadly, serious disease and is often times not easily treated because by the time it does show up it’s to a stage that is difficult and tends to be very disfiguring for the patient because loss of the jaw bone or loss of part of your mouth tends to be a very disfiguring effect from the treatment.
Video: Male child on golf cart looking at smokeless tobacco ad in magazine.
Text: In the Month of October these are only a few magazines with smokeless tobacco ads:
Outdoor Life
Oklahoma Game & Fishing
North American Whitetail Guns and Gear
Chevy High Performance Four Wheeler
Shooting Times
Sport Truck
Maxim
Golf Magazine
Golf Digest
Text: Sean Marsee
Sean Marsee was Talihina High School’s most gifted athlete. His classmates honored him with a walnut plaque. He had his whole life ahead of him. After using chew tobacco after 7 years, Sean Marsee died as a result of cancer. He was 19 years old. . . the following picture was taken shortly before his death.
Text: The End