1. Mr. Hager 7th Grade Health
Tobacco Unit
Mr. Hager
7th Grade Health

2. How is tobacco used?
Cigarettes
Cigars
Chewing Tobacco
Pipe
Hookah

3. Ingredients Over 4,000 chemicals Nicotine Tar
Stimulant that causes the addiction
Tar
Flavor of the cigarette
Consists of 100+ known carcinogens (cancer- causing agents)
Forms a brown sticky substance that lines the lungs

4. Tar

5. Ingredients

6. Ingredients
Polonium 210
1 Pack of cigarettes a day for 1 year = 300 Chest x-rays!

7. Health Problems Premature Death
Each cigarette smoked takes 5-10 minutes off of your life!
How much time does a pack a day smoker lose in a day? A week? A month? A year?
How much does it cost to smoke a pack a day? A week? A month? A year?

8. Health Problems Chronic bronchitis
Emphysema – destroyed air sacs in lungs
Heart disease – increased heart rate and blood pressure, constricts blood vessels
Cancer – mouth, larynx, esophagus, lip, lung
Other – bad breath, dulled taste buds and smell, stained teeth, ulcers, premature wrinkling and balding, harms immune system, gum disorders, allergies, asthma and more………

9. Chewing Tobacco
Dip
Placed between lip and gum

10. Chewing Tobacco
Chew or Chewing Tobacco
Placed between cheek and gum

11. Reasons why people smoke
Peer pressure
Addicted
Think it looks cool
Parents smoke
Celebrities/Role Models Smoke
Media
To rebel
Can you think of any other reasons?

12. How do you quit? Nicotine Patch Nicotine Gum Cold Turkey
Electronic/Water Vapor Cigarettes

13. How do you quit?
Wooden Cigarette
Acupuncture
Hypnosis
Hotlines

14. Addiction Tobacco is as addictive as cocaine and heroin
Withdrawal Symptoms
Difficulty sleeping
Crave nicotine
Moody
Nervous
Hungry
Tolerance – body needs more of the drug for the same effect

15. Second-Hand Smoke
Smoke being inhaled involuntarily from tobacco being smoked by others
Is second-hand smoke worse than smoking yourself?

16. Second-Hand Smoke 2 types
Sidestream – smoke from the burning end of the cigarette
Twice as much tar and nicotine and three times as many cancer-causing agents and carbon monoxide
Mainstream – smoke the smoker exhales
Against the law in NJ to smoke inside a public place, such as a store, restaurant, bar and more…….

17. Smoking Stats 88% of adult smokers start before the age of 18
Only 18% of high school students have smoked at least 1 cigarette in the last month
Only 4% of middle school students have smoked at least 1 cigarette in the last month