Illegalizing Cigarettes

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Illegalizing Cigarettes

• Ending over a century of addiction

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No Such Thing As A Safe Smoke

• An American Blended Cigarette has about 90
  tobacco.
• In 1986 Philip Morris disclosed all of the
  ingredients in cigarettes and supported the FDA
  reviewing the ingredients.
• Even if a cig is only tobacco and paper is it
  still unsafe.
• Philip Morris agrees with the OVERWHELMING
  medical and scientific research that cigarettes
  cause,
• lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other
  serious diseases.
• Philip Morris also agrees with the research that
  cigarettes are very addicting and it can be
  extremely hard for one to quit.
• PM also states that the mild, light and ultra
  light labels do not make the cigarette any safer.
• Its the way that one smokes the cigarette, more
  or larger puffs, that dictate how much tar and
  nicotine one is consuming.

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Some Numbers To Start You Off

• About a third of the adult global population
  smokes.
• Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults
  globally, or cause four million deaths.
• By 2030, if current smoking trends continue,
  smoking will kill one in six people.
• Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco
  use.
• About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily or 10
  million every minute.
• About 12 times more British people have died from
  smoking than from WWII

• Among teens aged 13 to 15, about one in five
  smokes worldwide.
• Between 80,000 and 100,000 children worldwide
  start smoking every day.
• Peer-reviewed studies show teenagers are heavily
  influenced by tobacco advertising.

Among Adults
Among Youth
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Action! Action! We Want Action!
Action Has Benn Taken In These Areas
Support For Smoking Bans Are High In These Areas

• Indoor Shopping Malls - 75 to 83 percent
• Convenience Stores - 68 to 80 percent
• Restaurants - 25 to 45 percent
• Fast-food Restaurants - 52 to 72 percent
• Outdoor Parks - 8 to 15 percent

• Shopping Malls - 71 to 80 percent
• Restaurants - 61 to 71 percent
• Fast-food Restaurants - 77 to 82 percent
• Outdoor Parks - 25 to 39 percent
• Indoor Sporting Events - 78 to 82 percent

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Air Tainted With Cigarette Smoke
People need to be especially careful when smoking
around children, even if their outside.

• Secondhand smoke is the combination of the smoke
  from the lit end of the cigarette and the smoke
  exhaled by the smoker.
• Secondhand smoke from cigarettes causes disease
  in individuals even though they had never touched
  a cigarette. These diseases include,
• lung cancer and heart disease in adults, as well
  as causes conditions in children such as asthma,
  respiratory infections, coughing, wheezing,
  middle ear infection and Sudden Infant Death
  Syndrome. secondhand smoke can also exacerbate
  adult asthma and cause eye, throat and nasal
  irritation.
• There are over 4000 chemical compounds in second
  hand smoke 200 of which are known to be
  poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified
  as carcinogens.
• When a cigarette is smoked about half is inhaled
  by the smoker and the other half floats around in
  the air.

Not only is a child's body still developing
physically, but their breathing rate is faster
than that of adults. Adults breathe in and out
approximately 14 to 18 times a minute, where
newborns can breathe as many as 60 times a
minute.
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Breathe it in

• Tar the same thing they use to pave streets and
  driveways.
• Hydrogen Cyanide This chemical is used to kill
  rats and it was used during WWII as a genocidal
  agent. Smokers inhale it with every puff.
• Benzene This chemical is used in manufacturing
  gasoline.
• Acetone Its in nail polish remover and its in
  cigarettes.
• Formaldehyde This is what they use to preserve
  dead bodies. Its also used as an industrial
  fungicide, is a disinfectant, and is used in
  glues and adhesives.
• Ammonia We use this chemical to clean our houses.
  It is very toxic.
• Carbon Monoxide Its in car exhaust, and its in
  cigarette smoke.

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Did YOU Know.?

• Quitting helps avoid complications in surgery.
• Ugeskrift for Laeger. 26, 161(30)4273-4276.
• Quitting improves ones sex-drive and sexual
  functioning. Health Education Research 1998.
  V4491-501.
• For every day that you have quitted, your immune
  system improves. Journal of Neuroimmunology.
  83(1-2)148-56.
• Men perceive women who do not smoke as more
  sexually attractive. Basic Applied Social
  Psychology. 13(2)205-216.
• Non-smokers are viewed as more desireable to date
  than smokers.
• Psychological Reports. 83(3, Pt
  2)1299-1306

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Why Quit.?

• You can taste and smell food better. Your breath
  smells better. Your cough goes away.
• Cuts the risk of lung cancer, many other cancers,
  heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and
  other respiratory illnesses.
• Quitting smoking saves money.
• A pack a day smoker spending 5 per pack of cigs
  will spend 1,825.00 in one year.

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Works Cited
About. 2006. The New York Times Company. 10
November 2006. http//quitsmoking.about. com/od/
secondhandsmoke/a/smokeandkids.htm American
Heart Association.2006. American Heart
Association. 10 November 2006.
http//www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?id e
ntifier4559 Philip Morris USA. 2006. Philip
Morris USA. 8 November 2006.

com/en/home.asp?sourceglobal_nav. Facts About
Smoking. 2006. National Cancer Institute. 14
November 2006. http//dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/
Smoking_Facts/info.html