1. Smoking Kills!!!
Warning!! Warning!!

2. Opinion Using tobacco is worse than drinking alcohol.
Smokeless tobacco is safer than cigarettes or cigars
Tobacco should be completely illegal
The tobacco age should be raised to 21
Athletes/celebrities should not be allowed to advertise tobacco products.

3. What is in Tobacco?
Natural tobacco contains harmful substances that are released when a person smokes or chews it.
Tobacco companies add more harmful ingredients when they prepare tobacco to be sold.
Deciding not to take poisons into your body is a healthful decision.

4. What’s in a Cigarette?

5. More ingredients Cyanide- deadly poison; ingredient in pest control
Formaldehyde- burning, stinging gas that is used as a preservative in the laboratory and also causes nasal cancer

6. INFORMATION
Tobacco products are made from the dried, processed leaves of tobacco plants.
NICOTINE-is a chemical that acts as an insecticide to protect the plants’ leaves from insects. It is VERY addictive.
TAR-the dark, sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns. It is a mixture of hundreds of chemicals known as CARCINOGENS (cancer-causing agents).
CARBON MONOXIDE-an odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco is burned. Replaces oxygen in red blood cells.

7. Forms of Tobacco Tobacco is a leaf that comes from tobacco plants
The leaves are dried and then prepared for people to smoke or chew them
The most common ones are cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, clove cigarettes, and flavored tobacco.

8. Cigarettes Contain shredded tobacco leaves
Tobacco companies claim that filters block some of the harmful chemicals found in cigarettes, however, filters do not remove enough chemicals to make cigarettes less dangerous
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SAFE CIGARETTE!!
Flavored cigarettes may taste and smell sweet, however, they have even more chemicals than regular cigarettes
Clove cigarettes- ground spices and tobacco
Hookahs- smoke flavored tobacco place in water pipes

9. Cigars and Pipes Contain shredded tobacco leaves
Cigar smoke contains up to 90x more of the cancer-causing chemicals found in cigarette smoke
More likely to develop mouth, tongue, or lip cancer than people who don’t smoke.

10. Smoker’s Mouth!!

11. Mouth Cancer!!!

12. Smokeless Tobacco Two forms- chewing tobacco and snuff
Chewing Tobacco aka “dip” or “spit tobacco”
Snuff can be sniffed or chewed
Held in the mouth rather than inhaled as smoke
Nicotine is absorbed into tissues and the bloodstream through the digestive tract
Just as harmful and addictive as cigarettes.

13. Smokeless Tobacco Kills Too!

14. Smokeless Tobacco!!

15. Cigarette Tar

16. One Year’s Worth of Tar!!

17. Respiratory System
Digestive System
Nervous System
Excretory System
Circulatory System
Tobacco smoke damages the air sacs in the lungs. This damage can lead to a life-threatening disease that destroys the air sacs. Smokers are also between times more likely than non smokers to develop lung cancer
All forms of tobacco increase the risks of cavities and gum disease. Tobacco dulls the taste buds and can cause stomach ulcers. Tobacco use is linked to cancers of the mouth, throat, stomach, esophagus, and pancreas
Tobacco use reduces the flow of oxygen to the brain which can lead to a stroke
Smokers have at least twice the risk of developing bladder cancer as nonsmokers. Smokeless tobacco can also put users at risk of developing bladder cancer
Tobacco use is linked to heart disease. It increases the chances of a heart attack. Smoking also raises blood pressure and heart rate.

18. LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Chronic bronchitis-the airways are constantly inflamed. Leads to increased mucus and difficulty breathing.
Emphysema-when the alveoli (air-sacs) in the lungs are damaged and cannot function properly. Less oxygen = always being short of breath.
Cancer-Leading cause of cancer deaths! Only 15% of patients will survive more than 5 years. By the time it is diagnosed, treatment is unlikely.

19. Respiratory System
Breathing in tobacco smoke affects your respiratory system.
Smoke damages the alveoli- tiny air sacs in the lungs
Your lungs are less able to supply oxygen to the body

20. Digestive System Lead to mouth and stomach ulcers
Harms teeth and gums, causing teeth to yellow and making it more likely that you will get cavities and gum disease

21. Nervous System Your brain needs oxygen
Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide which can cut down the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry to the brain.
Nicotines reaches the brain in only a few seconds and attaches to special receptors in brain cells
The brain adapts to nicotine by increasing the number of nicotine receptors, causing addiction

22. Circulatory System Includes heart and blood vessels
As a person smokes blood vessels constrict or squeeze together.
The blood vessels harden over time
This disables the blood vessels to send enough blood and oxygen throughout the body.
Increases chances of heart attack and stroke
Raises blood pressure and heart rate

23. Excretory System
More likely to develop bladder cancer than non-smokers.
Chemicals are absorbed from the lungs and get into the blood.
Blood then sends the chemicals to the kidneys and bladder
Chemicals damage the cells that line the inside of the bladder and increase risk of cancer
Colorectal Cancer- affects the colon and rectum

24. A Cigarette can cause Cancer!

25. Non-Smoker’s Lungs!

26. Emphysema & Lung Cancer!

27. Lung Cancer!!!

28. Emphysema!
Look at the Tar!

29. What Pretty Teeth!!!

30. Advertisements…

32. Celebrities Advertise Cigarettes too!

33. and Physical Health…

34. What a Steal!!!!

35. Center for Disease Control Says,
“5 million persons who were aged 0-17 years in 2007 will die prematurely from a smoking-related illness.”
This means that smoking will shorten
half the lives in this room!!!!

36. It’s Your Choice… or

38. Addiction
Psychological dependence – Habit, associated with social situations, think you need it.
Physical (withdrawal)- Headaches, irritability, difficulty sleeping, loss of concentration, cravings, shaking, etc. (30 minutes)

39. SECOND-HAND SMOKE
When you inhale sidestream smoke (directly burns from cigarette) or mainstream smoked (exhaled smoke) from a smoker.
Just as dangerous as smoking!