1. Tobacco Notes

2. Tobacco Nicotine
A highly addictive drug that is naturally occurring in the tobacco plant
A plant whose leaves can be dried and mixed with chemicals to make products such as cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and cigars.
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3. Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Additives
The chemicals that help tobacco stay moist, burn longer, and taste better. Examples – ammonia & acetone
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
The mixture of exhaled smoke and smoke
from the ends of burning cigarettes

4. Carbon Monoxide Tar A gooey chemical found in tobacco smoke
can coat the airways and that can cause cancer
A gas in cigarette smoke that makes it hard for the body to get oxygen

5. Chronic Bronchitis Emphysema
A disease in which the lining of the airways becomes very swollen and irritated.
This irritation makes a person produce large amounts of mucus and cough a lot.
A disease in which the tiny air sacs and walls of the lungs are permanently destroyed.
Many people with emphysema require the use of oxygen tanks to help them breathe.

6. Cardiovascular Diseases
Diseases of the circulatory system.
Heart attack -
When arteries that supply blood to the heart become blocked
Stroke –
When arteries that supply blood to the brain become blocked
May cause brain damage - may be temporary or permanent
May cause speech problems
May cause paralysis – especially on one side of the body

7. Cancer Carcinogen Any chemical or agent that causes cancer
ALL tobacco products contain cancer-causing chemicals
A disease in which cells grow uncontrollably and invade and destroy healthy tissue
Lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer!

8. Common Types of Cancer for Tobacco Users:
Lung
Throat (voice box)
Mouth
Gums
Stomach

9. Buerger’s Disease Only in smokers
Causes poor circulation in feet and hands
May lead to tissue death and amputation
Gets worse the more you smoke

10. Addiction
Drug addiction – the inability to control one’s use of a drug
Tolerance – the process of the body getting used to a drug

11. Addiction
Physical dependence – a state in which the body needs a drug to function normally
Psychological dependence – a state in which you think you need a drug in order to function
Withdrawal – the way in which the body responds when a person stops using a drug