TOBACCO

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TOBACCO
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Statistics on Teen Smoking

• Approximately 80 of adult smokers started
  smoking before the age of 18.
• Every day, nearly 3,000 young people under the
  age of 18 become regular smokers.
• Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before
  high school graduation.

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Types of Tobacco

• Chewing Tobacco
• Snuff
• Pipes
• Cigars
• Cigarettes

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Chemicals in Tobacco

• A stimulant
• More than 4000 chemicals
• 10 are carcinogens or poisonous
• Carcinogens are cancer causing agents
• The 3 most poisonous chemicals are tar,
  nicotine, and carbon monoxide

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Nicotine

• Psychoactive substance- causes a change in the
  persons mood or behavior
• Very addictive- causes a physical dependence

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Tar

• Tiny pieces that when inhaled in to the lungs,
  condense and form a sticky coating on the
  bronchial tubes
• Same substance used to pave roads!!!
• Destroys cilia, waving hair-like projections that
  work to keep the respiratory tract clear.

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Carbon Monoxide

• A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas released by
  burning tobacco
• Interferes with the bloods ability to carry
  oxygen
• Same gas from car exhaust
• if inhaled directly-can be fatal

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Second Hand smoke

• Mainstream smoking- passes through the tobacco
  and filter when the smoker inhales
• what a smoker inhales

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• Sidestream smoke- rises from the cigarette when
  the smoker is not inhaling
• This contains 2x more nicotine and tar, and 5x
  more CO than mainstream
• Non-smokers who live with smokers have a 20-30
  HIGHER risk of dying from heart disorders than
  non-smokers who live with non-smokers!!!

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• Passive smoker- a person who inhales the
  sidestream smoke
• smoke inhaled by non-smokers
• Passive smoke can cause
• Heart disease Asthma
• Eye irritation Cancer
• Ear infections
• Emphysema

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Cracking and bleeding lips and gums
• receding gums, which can eventually make your
  teeth fall out
• increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and
  irregular heartbeatsleading to a greater risk of
  heart attacks and brain damage
• ORAL CANCER-lips, tongue, cheeks, gums, ANYWHERE
  IN MOUTH!
• CANCER-stomach, esophagus, bladder

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Health Lung Vs. Smokers lung
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Tobacco on the skin
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Tobacco on the hands
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Tobacco on the Mouth
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How much money do you save by not smoking???

• LETS FIND OUT!!!

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• Lets say someone smokes 1 pack a day
• Per PACK they will spend 5
• Per WEEK they will spend 35
• Per MONTH they will spend 140
• Per YEAR they will spend 1680
• 5 YEARS 8400
• 10 YEARS 16,800
• What would you buy with this much money??

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• About 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in men and
  almost 80 percent of lung cancer deaths in women
  are due to smoking.
• People who smoke are 10 to 20 times more likely
  to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than
  people who do not smoke

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Effects on the body

• When you inhale a cigarette, the nicotine travels
  to the bloodstream and then to the brain- this
  only take 8 seconds
• Heart will beat faster
• Blood pressure will increase
• Become more alert and energetic
• Sense of smell and taste decrease
• Yellow Teeth, Fingernails
• Smelly clothes, hair, breath, house, car, etc.
• Smokers Voice

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• LUNG CANCER
• growth of malignant cells that attack and replace
  healthy cells
• NO CURE!!
• Now kills more women than breast cancer!
• Many females believe smoking causes weight
  loss-There is NO PROOF of this being true!

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• Chronic Bronchitis
• Inflammation of the bronchial tubes
• Chronic coughing, excessive mucus production
• Cilia becomes useless-covered with tar

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Pulmonary Emphysema

• PulmonaryLUNGS
• Destruction of tiny air sacs in lungs which
  absorb oxygen into the body
• Tiny air sacsALVEOLI
• Instead of using only 5 of their energy to
  breathe, a person with advanced emphysema uses
  80 of their energy to breathe!!

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How to quit

• Hypnosis
• Therapy
• Support groups
• Medicine- patch, gum
• Cold Turkey is best!!

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