This attractive, colorful 8-page booklet tells readers that tobacco kills 430,000 people a year in this country. It adresses both smoking and "spit" tobacco, and emphasizes that they are equally hazardous to the user's health.

It identifies nicotine as the addictive ingredient in tobacco and warns that once addicted, smokers have a very hard time quitting.

The many diseases attributable to tobacco, including various forms of cancer, emphysema, heart attack and stroke, are listed, and readers are warned that secondhand smoke presents a health hazard toi their families.

The booklet debunks the sophisticated image of smoking presented by the tobacco industry and warns readers to resist peer pressure and the example of adults who smoke.

It concludes with a list of sources for help in quittting tobacco.