SMOKELESS TOBACCO

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SMOKELESS TOBACCO

• The truth you need to know

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How Does It Work?

• Enters body through the gums
• Placed between the cheek and gum line
• Additives cut gums
• Sand, grit, fiberglass, etc.
• Openings allow nicotine to enter blood system
• Chewers secrete more saliva
• Swallow harmful chemicals

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Facts

• Chewing is just as addictive as smoking!!
• 1 can of chew has as much nicotine as 60
  cigarettes!
• Chance of getting cancer is 50 times more likely
  if you chew.
• Oral cancer affects 30,000 Americans each year

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Short Term Effects

• Decreased sense of smell
• Decreased sense of taste
• Dental problems
• Receding gums
• Bad breath
• Discolored teeth
• Short term effects become permanent!

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Health Risks

• Mouth sores
• Gum disease
• Gums pull away from teeth
• Cancer
• Mouth, lip, throat, stomach, etc.
• Digestive Urinary system damage
• Leukoplakia

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Leukoplakia

• Thickened, white, leathery-appearing spots on the
  inside of the mouth
• Between the cheek and the gum line
• Pre-cancerous

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Stations Team Challenge

• Groups of 4-5
• Determine team name
• Determine team leader

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Stations Team Challenge!!

• Notes Respiratory System Disorders
• Copy on to purple note sheet 1 per person
• Word Search
• 1 paper per team
• Notes Smokeless Tobacco Facts
• Copy on to bottom of purple sheet 1 per person
• Anti-Tobacco Advertisement
• Target audience preschooler
• 1 advertisement per team
• Bill Tuttle Article
• Pictures
• 1 list of adjectives per team
• Tobacco Story
• Use as many as the vocabulary words as you can
• 1 story per team

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Stations Team Challenge!!

• 7 stations
• 5 minutes per station
• Turn in team papers as you rotate
• Team points
• Anti-tobacco advertisement
• Word search
• Adjectives for pictures
• Tobacco story
• Prize to the winning team! ?