1. Tobacco
Project ALERT
Lesson 4

2. The Dangers of Tobacco
Using alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana is like playing with dynamite.
These drugs are extremely dangerous for young people.

3. Dangers of Tobacco Tobacco is the leading cause of cancer.
Tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that is highly addictive.
Approximately 40% of students ages have smoked cigarettes.
60.9% of students TRY to quit each year…appr. 4% are able to without help

4. Tobacco Effects on Youth
♣    They often do not perform well in school ♣    They feel like they are not a part of the school ♣    They become isolated from other students ♣    They can’t perform as well at sports events ♣    They feel like they have little hope of going to college ♣    They feel like they need a job to support their smoking habit ♣    They are reported to school officials for skipping classes ♣    They start using other illegal substances ♣    They begin experimenting with alcohol and other drugs ♣    They experience pressure from home and school and use tobacco as a form of relief ♣    Teen smokers enjoy trying to hide their smoking

5. Tobacco
Every 2 ½ days, tobacco kill as many people that were killed on 9/11/2001!
In 2006, alcohol related car wrecks claimed the lives of 1,677 Texans. Tobacco kills more Texans each month!

6. Smoking Statistics Nearly 90% of smokers start before age 19
40% of students, ages 12-17, smoke
3,900 new smokers each day
Addiction: Less than 5% of smokers quit each year
400,000 deaths each year from tobacco
Daily health care costs = $193 billion

7. Could you do this if you smoked?
Shortness of breath & dizziness
Lung disease/Chronic bronchitis/emphysema
Heart disease/stroke/heart attack/vascular disease/aneurysm
Lung/mouth/throat/bladder/pancreas/kidney cancer
Dry skin/premature wrinkles

8. Smoking causes all blood vessels to become narrow, reducing blood flow to the various organs and parts of the body. This is especially bad for parts of the body like hands and feet that are distant from the heart. With less blood, infection and tissue death are a great risk.
Dead Foot - Because of poor blood flow to this foot, a severe infection set in. The foot died and had to be cut off. Smoking can cause poor blood flow.

9. Cigarettes contain many harmful poisons (Approximately 4800)
Cigarettes contain many harmful poisons (Approximately 4800). Did you know these were in cigarettes?
Ammonia (found in toilet bowl cleaner)
Arsenic (found in Rat Poison)
Acetaldehyde (air pollutant)
Benzene (causes cancer(
Polonium 210 (nuclear waste)
Carbon Monoxide (car exhaust/toxic gas…can cause death)
Chromium (causes cancer)
Hydrogen Cyanide (causes cardiovascular/respiratory disease-used prison executions)
Acetone (used to remove paint)
Sodium Hydroxide (hair removal)
Naphthalene (found in mothballs)
Urea (found in human sweat & pee)
Methanol (found in antifreeze)
Cinnemaldyhyde (found in insect repellent)
Cadium (found in batteries)
Toluene (found in gasoline & explosives)
Hydrazine ( found in rocket fuel)
Geraniol (found in pesticides)
Formaldehyde (preserves dead bodies)

10. Smoking kills 434,000 Americans every year, more than...
AIDS
Car accidents
Alcohol
Murders
Fires
#1 cause of preventable death in US

11. On average, adults who smoke cigarettes die 14 years earlier than nonsmokers

12. The Tobacco Industry
Annual nationwide marketing expenditures total about $13 billion
Largest provider of smoking prevention funding – Phillip Morris – spends $32 million per day on cigarette advertising
Estimated $885 million spent each year on tobacco marketing in Texas alone.
The largest provider of smoking
prevention funding is Phillip Morris.
They also spend $32 million every
day to advertise cigarettes.

13. Using the Calculator The calculator has two components:
Side one, A Short Story of Life, produces an estimate of life lost from smoking in days, weeks, and years.
Step 1. Select the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
Note days, weeks, and years of life lost

14. Side two, The Cost of Dying Young, produces an estimate of lifetime costs of smoking at two fixed rates - $2.50 per pack or $5.00 per pack - and the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per lifetime. .
Step 2. Note number of packs smoked in a lifetime. Note lifetime cost at $2.50 per pack and $5.00 per pack.

15. Smokeless Tobacco-Caffinated Energy Dip
150 mg of caffeine
(compared to 31 mg in 1 can of Coca-Cola & 88 mg in Monster)

16. Pancreas-Mouth-Esophagus Cancers possible
Smokeless Product
6-9 mg nicotine
Pancreas-Mouth-Esophagus Cancers possible

17. E-Cigarette
Claims to help smokers quit without harmful effects, BUT studies show when people use these they tend to smoke more
Contains Diethylene Glycol which is found in anti-freeze
The vapors hit your blood stream within seconds.

18. Flavored Cigarettes Flavored cigarettes banned June 22, 2010.
“Little cigarettes can still be flavored
Ex)Swisher Sweets
Black & Milds
Intended to lure children

19. Alcohol Flavored Products
If we make your brain think you are drinking, you will smoke more because alcohol and drinking are paired together in the brain

20. Lethal dose for kids 40-45 mg
Camel Dissolvables
Possible Effects:
Vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, trouble breathing, paleness, sweating, heart palpitations, stomach cramps, drooling, fatigue, death
3 mg nicotine per pouch
Can chew up to pouches
Lethal dose for kids mg

22. http://www. youtube. com/watch

23. More Effects of Smoking…

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