1. Smoking

2. Why do people start smoking?
Peer pressure
To look cool
To relax and relieve stress
To relieve boredom
Their parents smoke
To lose weight

3. What is in a cigarette?

4. The Dangers Of Smoking
LUNG CANCER! 80% of all lung cancer deaths are smokers.
14 people die in the U.K every hour as a result of smoking.
Heart disease, circulation problems, throat cancer and bronchitis are caused by smoking cigarettes.
Smoking contains nicotine which makes them very addictive both psychologically and physically.

5. What’s un-cool about smoking?
Yellow teeth, yellow fingers and yellowing of the whites of eyes
Cause smelly ashtray breath, clothes and your house will smell also!
More likely to get wrinkles around the eyes and mouth
More likely to get spots and pimples
Smokers are often skint and have to smoke outside when socialising in public
Coughing up phlegm.

6. Ways of saying NO! to smoking
Be honest “ I don’t want to take one- it’s dangerous so I won’t”
Walk away “I’m going to go somewhere else instead”
Answer back “Get lost, I’m not trying it”
Stand up for yourself “Just because you chose to smoke doesn’t mean I have to”

7. For support on quitting
Your doctor or the chemist will have alternatives to cigarettes.