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Contents

Introduction

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1. What is alcohol? What is tobacco?

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2. What are the downsides of using alcohol and tobacco? 3. What are the legal consequences of using alcohol and tobacco for young people? 4. How do people use tobacco? How do people use alcohol? 5. What does alcohol do once it’s inside your body? 6. What does tobacco do once it’s inside your body?

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7. How does alcohol change your brain? 8. What does tobacco smoke do to your lungs? 9. What does tobacco do to your heart? 10. What else can tobacco do to your body? 11. How can alcohol damage your body?

12. Why is alcohol addictive? 13. Why is tobacco addictive?

14. How does using alcohol or tobacco change the way you do in school? 15. Why is drinking and driving so dangerous?

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Glossary

Index

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About the Author and the Consultant