1. Tobacco

2. Who Smokes
•Approximately 18% of high school students smoke cigarettes.
•Each day, more than 3,200 people under 18 smoke their first cigarette, and approximately 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers.
9 out of 10 smokers start before the age of 18, and 98% start smoking by age 26.

3. Why so harmful
•More than 16 million people already have at least one disease from smoking.
•More than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking since 1964, including approximately 2.5 million deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
•8.6 million people live with a serious illness caused by smoking.
•On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.

4. Respiratory Health
•Nearly 9 out of 10 lung cancers are caused by smoking. Smokers today are much more likely to develop lung cancer than smokers were in 1964.
•More than 11% of high school students in the United States have asthma, and studies suggest that youth who smoke are more likely to develop asthma
•Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women in the United States, and 90% of lung cancer deaths among men and approximately 80% of lung cancer deaths among women are due to smoking.

5. Cancer
•Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia.
•Men with prostate cancer who smoke may be more likely to die from the disease than nonsmokers.

6. Children/Babies
•5.6 million children alive today will ultimately die early from smoking. That is equal to 1 child out of every 13 alive in the U.S. today.
•Children are at particular risk for exposure to secondhand smoke: 53.6% of young children (aged 3–11 years) were exposed to secondhand smoke in 2007–2008.
•More than 100,000 of the smoking-caused deaths over the last 50 years were of babies who died from SIDS.
•More than 400,000 babies born in the U.S. every year are exposed to chemicals in cigarette smoke before birth, because their mothers smoke
•Babies who breathe secondhand smoke are sick more often with bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections.

7. nicotine
When you use tobacco products, nicotine is quickly absorbed into your bloodstream. Within 10 seconds of entering your body, the nicotine reaches your brain. It causes the brain to release adrenaline, creating a buzz of pleasure and energy.

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9. TOBACCO

10. Types of diseases tobacco causes..
Heart Disease
Aneurysms
Bronchitis
Emphysema
Stroke
Cancer
Lung
Stomach
Esophagus
Lip

11. Statistics..
Tobacco contains over 4,000 chemicals including 250 known to harm humans.
Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 443,000 deaths each year, including approximately 49,000 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
Nearly 16 percent of high school students smoke cigarettes.
Over 20% of all deaths in the U.S are from tobacco.
An estimated 7.3 percent of high school students use smokeless tobacco.
Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.

12. Chewing Tobacco
Cigars
Cigarettes
Types of Tobacco..

13. Products Tobacco is found in..
Light Cigarettes
Menthol cigarettes
Cigars
Pipes
Bidis and Kreteks (Clove Cigarettes)
Hookahs

14. What does tobacco have..
Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic. About 70 are known to cause cancer.
Toxic Metals
Chromium
Lead
Arsenic
Cancer Causing Chemicals
Vinyl Chloride
Benzene
Poisonous Gases
Carbon Monoxide
Butane
Hydrogen Cyanide

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17. Smoking Makes You Cool?

18. Is it cool to have: Lung cancer? Throat cancer? Stomach cancer?
Acute myeloid leukemia?
These are just four deadly effects among the thousands you’ll receive if you live a smoking life.

19. Is it cool to be apart of:
The 480,000 people that die every year due to smoking?
Those who live about 10 years shorter than nonsmokers?
Those who increase the risk of dying from coronary heart disease by almost four times?

20. IS it cool to:
Develop yellow/brown stains on your teeth from smoking all the time?
Have your hair reek of cigarette smoke, even long after you’ve stopped smoking?
Have skin discoloration, wrinkles, and premature aging?

21. Is it worth it? Smoking isn’t cool
There are many deadly effects that come with smoking. Think of it like this: With every dollar you spend on cigarettes, that’s one less year you’re going to be alive.
Is it worth it?

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