Nicotine

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Nicotine

• Second hand smoking

Arnold.Yoo
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Contents

• 1.What is Nicotine
• 2.Whats inside of tobacco
• 3.Why its so addictive
• 4.Damages from Smoking
• 5.How bad is SHS
• 6.Whos in danger
• 7.How to Prevent SHS
• 8.Man smoking
• 9.Woman Smoking
• 10.Quitting Smoking
• 11.Sources

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What is Nicotine

• Nicotine is originally find in tobacco plants
• Nicotine is a stimulant, just like cocaine.
• It works by speeding up the processing rate of
  the central nervous system.

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Whats inside of tobacco

• More than 400 unknown chemicals, including
  poisons and 50 cancer-causing substances
• It also contains tar carbon monoxide

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Why its so addictive

• Many smokers also find handling a cigarette to be
  a soothing habit. This resulting dependence on
  nicotine both psychological and physical is
  responsible for continuing the cigarette habit
  even in smokers who know that it may be (or is)
  harming their health.

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Damages from Smoking

• 400,000 people die every year from smoking.
• More than the annual deaths caused by alcohol,
  AIDS, traffic accidents, drug abuse, murder, and
  suicide combined.

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How bad is SHS

• 300 non-smokers die from lung cancer.
• SHS more dangerous than inhaling directly.
  Inhaling 2 times more tar and 5 more times
  carbon-monoxide.
• Second-hand smoke is linked to the deaths of at
  least 1,100 Canadians every year.

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SHS Places

• at home
• at work
• at school
• in public places such as restaurants and bars
• in vehicles such as the family car

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Man Smoking

• 50 cancer-causing substances have been found in
  tobacco smoke.
• The five-year survival rate from lung cancer is
  less than 15.

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Woman Smoking

• Women who smoke may have a harder time getting
  pregnant and may suffer from more health problems
  during the pregnancy. They may also experience a
  harder labour and delivery.

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Other tobacco products

• Chewing tobacco - risk of cancer of the mouth
• People who
  chew tobacco become
• as addicted to
  nicotine as smokers.
• Snuff - Snuff is fine cut tobacco that is either
  moist or
• dry. Moist snuff increases the
  risk of cancer of
• the oral cavity and larynx
• Cigars - Smoking 1-2 cigars a day, even if not
  inhaled, doubles a person's risk for many
  cancers. As well, the second-hand smoke from
  cigars has a much higher concentration of some
  cancer-causing chemicals, increasing the health
  risk to non-smokers.

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Sources

• www.cancer.ca
• Nicotine Judy Monroe, Enslow
• Nicotine Cigarettes
  
• Gina De Angelis, Chelsea House Pub.

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• Thank You