1. Effects of Smoking

2. Tobacco Deaths
The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year in the United States.
More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.

3. Health Facts for Teens
Girls who smoke are more likely to grow excess facial hair.
Smoking as few as 5 cigarettes a day can reduce teens' lung function growth, with teenage girls being especially vulnerable.
40% of teenagers who smoke daily have tried to quit and failed.
About 2/3 of teen smokers say they want to quit smoking, and 70% say they would not have started if they could choose again.
44% of teens say they didn't know bidi cigarettes could lead to cancer.

4. Health Facts for Teens Cont.
Teens who smoke produce twice as much phlegm as teens who don't.
Teens who smoke break out more.
Zits last longer for teens who smoke.
Kids who smoke 2 or 3 cigarettes a day can get hooked in as short as two weeks.
Teens who smoke are more likely to catch a cold than people who don't - and their symptoms will probably be worse and last longer.
Teenagers who smoke use more medications than those who do not smoke.
Teenagers who smoke have significantly more trouble sleeping than those who do not smoke.

5. Short-Term Effects Increase blood pressure Increase heart rate
Bad breath
Yellow and brown stained teeth and fingers
Smelly clothes, car, furniture and homes.

6. Long-Term Effects Heart disease Emphysema
Cancer of the mouth, lung, esophagus
Chronic lung disease (smokers’ lungs turn black as they become clogged with smoke and the debris inhaled with the incinerating tobacco)
Decreased levels of physical activity (due to shortness of breath) and consequently obesity
Miscarriages and small, premature babies who often require respiratory machines to help them breathe
Impotence
Wrinkled skin
Weakened immune system
Chronic cough

7. How Smoking Affects Your Body
BRAIN
Pleasure & Then Sedation Nicotine, the highly addictive chemical in cigarettes and tobacco, stimulates the “pleasure centers” in the brain–creating pleasure and alertness. Nicotine initially stimulates the brain, then acts as a tranquilizer and sedative.
Brain Alteration, withdrawal, and addiction Nicotine directly affects, alters, and takes control of specialized receptor cells in the brain responsible for regulating well-being, mood, and memory. The drug remains active minutes, then withdrawal symptoms begin. Regular and long-term use leads to addiction.

8. THROAT
Cancer of larynx and esophagus, irritates membranes of the throat.
HEART
Nicotine raises heart rate, increases blood pressure, and constricts blood vessels.
Carbon monoxide increases risk of heart attack and stroke
Cause weakening of the heart muscle’s ability to pump blood, leading to death
LIVER
Cirrhosis of the liver

9. ADRENAL GLANDS VERTEBRAE REPORDUCTIVE ORGANS Stimulates adrenaline
Increased risk of vertebral cancer
REPORDUCTIVE ORGANS
MALE & FEMALE Reduces sex drive and increases risk of impotence in males. In females, increased chance of cervical cancer, and brings on menopause earlier.
PREGNANCY AND UNBORN BABIES Smoking increases chances of complications during pregnancy. Smoking during pregnancy may cause impairment of baby’s growth, intellect, and emotional development.

10. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Heart rate goes up beats per minute
Increases blood pressure
Reduces sex drive
Irritates mouth and throat
Major cause of heart attack, lung diseases, stroke, and death
MOUTH
Dulls taste buds, irritates membranes of the mouth, bleeding and receding gums, foul breath, and numbness.
Staining of teeth, tooth decay and tooth loss
Cancer of the mouth

11. LUNGS STOMACH & DUODENUM KIDNEYS Asthma Emphysema Chronic bronchitis
Lung cancer
STOMACH & DUODENUM
Stomach and duodenal ulcers develop, creating burning pain
KIDNEYS
Reduces kidneys’ ability to process fluids and waste, inhibiting formation of urine
Cancer

12. BLOOD VESSELS BLADDER BONES
Nicotine causes the blood vessels to constrict, increasing blood pressure, and risk of heart attack
BLADDER
Cancer of the bladder
BONES
Increases the risk of early onset of Osteoporosis

13. Cigarettes
Studies have proven that smoking cigarettes causes cancers of the bladder, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, cervix, kidney, lung, pancreas, and stomach, and causes acute myeloid leukemia. It also causes heart disease and stroke.

14. Cigars, Cigarillos and Little Cigars
Studies have shown that cigar smoking is linked to cancers of the mouth, lips, tongue, throat, larynx, lung, pancreas and bladder cancer. Cigar smoking, like cigarette smoking, is also linked to gum disease, where the gums shrink away from the teeth. It also raises your risk that teeth will actually fall out.

15. Smokeless Tobacco
Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents (carcinogens). It increases the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity, is strongly associated with leukoplakia (a lesion of the soft tissue in the mouth that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off) and recession of the gums.

16. Hookah
Hookah smoking has been associated with lung, mouth and other cancers, heart disease and respiratory infections.
The substances used to heat the tobacco also produce carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer causing chemicals, creating it own health hazards.
Sharing the mouthpiece of the Hookah has been associated with mouth and other infections including herpes, tuberculosis and hepatitis.

17. Bidis
Bidi smoking is associated with an increased risk for oral, lung, stomach, and esophageal cancer and an increased risk for coronary heart disease and heart attacks, and risk for chronic bronchitis.
Can be flavored (chocolate, licorice, cherry, mango) or unflavored.

18. Electronic cigarette or E- cigarette
Recent studies by the FDA show that the e-cigarette contains known carcinogens and toxic chemicals that are harmful to the user.