Week 15: December Important Reminders How is your “A Better You” plan going? Poster Due Thursday Grades will be updated today Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco unit continues this week. Assembly on Friday

Day 67 & 68: December 14 &15 Computer Lab 211 to work drug posters ▫Logbook Check ▫Sign-up for topics

Day 69: December 16 Objective: Write and describe the consequences of smoking. Warm-up: Why do you think there has been a rise in e-cigs, vapes and hookahs? Activities: ▫Project & Test Results ▫Smoking Facts & Stats ▫Poster Work Time

Up In Smoke Smoking Facts and Stats

Did you know… About 440,000 Americans die of nicotine-related diseases (emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease) In fact, smoking kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car crashes, fires and AIDS combined. Smoking also causes impotence. 1 pack a day = 7 years of lost life. The good news is that the body recovers much of that time when a person quits. Cigarettes have a 30-minute half life.

Did you know… Nicotine decreases blood flow to the heart, while increasing blood pressure and heart rate. Smoking also hardens arteries so they cannot expand and contract normally. A person is 400 times more likely to drop dead while smoking if at chronic risk.

Did you know… Nicotine is a Class A carcinogen. It damages everything it comes in direct contact with (mouth, tongue, lungs, trachea, esophagus, stomach, bladder, prostate, etc.) There are 400 other carcinogens in cigarettes.

CDC Says… (Hookah) The charcoal used to heat tobacco produces high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and carcinogens A 1-hour-long session = 200 puffs, (an average cigarette = 20 puffs) Less risky? NOT!

Did you know… One dose of smokeless tobacco has more nicotine than a cigarette. Most smokers begin their habit at around age Teenagers are at great risk for smoking related diseases because their immune systems are underdeveloped.

And did you know…. Companies have clever marketing programs to draw in new smokers. To maintain their market share, these companies must attract 2 million new smokers each year. There are some very effective programs to help people quit.

And the cost! Question: If an average pack of cigarettes costs $5.00 ($9), what is the annual cost to a pack-a-day smoker? Answer: $1,825. ($3,285) If a person didn’t smoke from age 15 until age 65 and saved all that money instead, how much would he or she have? Answer: $91,250 ($164,250)

And now for something truly amazing… If a person invested that $5.00 a day into an investment account (mutual fund, index fund, etc.), and if that account earned an average of 10% interest compounded over the same period of time…. That same person would have about $2.5 million at age 65. If you consider the true cost of cigarettes today (about $9) and you invested that much, it would be about $4.1 million.

Sources The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Familydoctor.org Investor.gov

Day 70: December 17 Objective: Identify the hazards related to substance abuse. Warm-up: Why are hookah’s dangerous? Activities: ▫Poster Gallery Walk

Day 71: December 18 Objective: Identify the hazards related to substance abuse. Warm-up: What is the average age someone starts smoking? Activities: ▫Poster Gallery Walk ▫Project Self-Evaluation

Marijuana A Harmless Drug?

Costs of Substance Abuse: NIDA

What the research shows

What the research shows

Lifetime Marijuana Use Percent of students who report having ever used marijuana | Renton School District - Source: 2014 Healthy Youth Survey 21

What is it? It comes from the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) that contains active ingredient delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). There are hundreds of hybrid varieties It can be taken in a variety of forms There are FDA approved prescription medicines that contain THC or marijuana derivatives, such as Marinol, Cesamet, Canasol, Sativex, and Epidolex for specific conditions

Two main types; lots of varieties Sativa Mainly affects mind Uplifting or euphoric Indica Mainly affects body Heavy feeling and/or “body melt”

Other forms – Concentrates: 70-90%+ THC Extracted THC from leaves and stems  Butane Hash Oil (BHO)  Dabs  Wax Tinctures – extracted with alcohol Ripped from the Headlines: ▫Hash oil explosions prompt proposed changes in pot states ▫Federal charges in fatal Bellevue hash-oil explosion and fire ▫Amateur hash-oil production, explosions bound to continue