1. Smoking and its effects

2. The Respiratory System and Health
Why is a respiratory system that works properly essential for good health?
The respiratory system provides the body with the oxygen it needs for respiration.
The lungs are delicate, spongy organs that deal with 12,000 litres of air each day.
Smoking is a very dangerous habit that has serious effects on the lungs and respiratory system.
How does smoking damage health and fitness?

3. How does smoking affect the lungs?
Which picture shows the healthy lungs of a non-smoker and which show the unhealthy lungs of a smoker?
Photos courtesy of PresMark.com.
healthy lungs
smoker’s lungs
Not a difficult question to answer but some people still think that smoking is cool!

4. Harmful chemicals in cigarettes

5. How does smoking affect health?
How will these chemicals be harmful to the body’s systems?
Carbon monoxide – A poisonous gas that reduces the around of oxygen that red blood cells carry around the body.
Tar – A brown, sticky substance that consists of tiny particles and is formed when tobacco smoke condenses. It is deposited in the lungs and coats the surface of the alveoli.
Nicotine – An addictive drug that affects the central
nervous system. It increases the heart rate and narrows
the blood vessels, causing high blood pressure.
Carbon monoxide
Tar
Nicotine
Smoking affects the respiratory and circulatory systems
but has many other effects on the body. What other health problems and diseases are related to this habit?

6. Cigarette smoke experiment

7. How does smoking affect health?
dental hygiene
problems
lung cancer
asthma
heart disease
impaired
immune system
facial wrinkles
cervical cancer
emphysema
kidney cancer
Effects of smoking on health
mouth, lip and
throat cancer
leukaemia
Increased risk for smokers
Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (gum disease); Muscle injuries; Angina (20 x risk); Neck pain; Back pain; Nystagmus (abnormal eye movements); Buerger’s Disease (severe circulatory disease); Ocular Histoplasmosis (fungal eye infection); Duodenal ulcer; Osteoporosis (in both sexes); Cataract (2 x risk); Osteoarthritis; Cataract, posterior subcapsular (3 x risk); Penis (inability to have an erection); Colon Polyps; Peripheral vascular disease; Crohn’s Disease (chronic inflamed bowel); Pneumonia; Depression; Psoriasis (2 x risk); Diabetes (Type 2, non-insulin dependent); Skin wrinkling (2 x risk); Hearing loss; Stomach ulcer; Influenza; Rheumatoid arthritis (for heavy smokers); Impotence (2 x risk); Tendon injuries; Optic Neuropathy (loss of vision, 16 x risk); Tobacco Amblyopia (loss of vision); Ligament injuries; Tooth loss; Macular degeneration (eyes, 2 x risk); Tuberculosis.
Function impaired in smokers
Ejaculation (volume reduced); Sperm count reduced; Fertility (30% lower in women); Sperm motility impaired; Immune System (impaired); Sperm less able to penetrate the ovum; Menopause (onset 1.74 years early on average); Sperm shape abnormalities increased.
Symptoms worse in smokers
Asthma; Graves’ disease (over-active thyroid gland); Chronic rhinitis (chronic inflammation of the nose); Multiple Sclerosis; Diabetic retinopathy (eyes); Optic Neuritis (eyes).
Disease more severe or persistent in smokers
Common cold; Pneumonia; Crohn’s Disease (chronic inflamed bowel); Tuberculosis; Influenza.
pancreatic cancer
sperm abnormalities
and impotence
bronchitis
testicular cancer
osteoporosis
stomach cancer
liver cancer
menstrual
problems
bladder cancer

8. Exercise: Smoking Nicotine
1. Which substance in cigarettes makes them addictive?
2. Which substance in cigarettes can cause cancer?
3. If you smoked 40 cigarettes a day and it cost £3.50 for 20 cigarettes, how much would you spend in…
a) 1 day?
b) 1 week?
c) 1 year?
d) 20 years?
Nicotine
Tar £7
£49
£2,548
£50,960

9. Scary smoking statistics!
Smoking doesn’t just make you unfit and unhealthy, it kills.
In the UK, around 114,000 smokers die every year as a result of their habit – that’s the same as 13 people per hour!
Smoking kills around five times more people in the UK than road traffic accidents, other accidents, poisoning and overdose, alcoholic liver disease, murder and manslaughter, suicide and HIV infection all put together!
About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually
be killed by their habit!
With such scary statistics about smoking, what can be done
to help people give up this harmful habit?

10. Smoking ban
Passive smoking has health implications for people who do not smoke.
People living with a smoker are 25% more likely to get lung cancer.
Every year, 17,000 children are admitted to hospital due to inhaling smoke from those around them.
Due to the serious effects of smoking on smokers and non-smokers, the government have proposed a ban in every cafe, restaurant and pub that sells food in England.
Will everyone have the same response to this proposal to protect public health?

11. Smoking bans around the world
Smoking is banned in many public places around the world…
Ireland
Italy
Australia
France
Romania
Greece
Norway
Boston
New York
Pakistan
Tokyo
Thailand
Uganda
South Korea
Tanzania
Iran
Turkey
California
South Africa

12. Smoking – true or false?