Do you have anyone in your family or a family friend that smokes cigarettes or uses chewing tobacco If so how does it make you feel Please write a question that you would like answered by the end of this unit or a topic you would like to cover that relates to tobacco use ID: 910555
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Tobacco
Slide2Tobacco Entry Task
Do you have anyone in your family or a family friend that smokes cigarettes or uses chewing tobacco? If so, how does it make you feel?
Please write a question that you would like answered by the end of this unit or a topic you would like to cover that relates to tobacco use?
Slide3Get the Facts on Tobacco
10 million cigarettes are smoked every minute of every day around the world.
Every 6.5 seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease.
Every day, about 3,900 youth ages 12 to 17 try a cigarette for the first time.
Slide4Slide5Why Young People Start Smoking
Feel insecure in social situations
Some believe that smoking makes you appear to be older/more sophisticated
Peer pressure
Advertising
Do not think the health effects immediately impact them
Think they can drop the habit at anytime
Slide6What’s in a cigarette?
Acetic Acid
Acetanisole
Toluene
Formaldehyde
Geraniol
Acetone
Hydrazine
Cadmium
Cinnemaldyhyde
Urea
Found in floor wipes
An ingredient in some perfumes
Found in dynamite and gasoline
Preserves the dead
Found in pesticides
Removes nail polish
Found in rocket fuel.
Found in batteries.
Found in pet repellant.
Found in Pee.
Slide7How much does it cost to smoke?
1 pack = $8
1 pack a day for a week = $56
1 year = $2,920
A pack a day for 25 years = $73,000
What else could you have spent this money on?
Slide8Smoking vs. Chewing
Smokeless (chewing) tobacco sends 10 times the carcinogens into the bloodstream as cigarettes do
One can of chewing tobacco contains as much nicotine as about 60 cigarettes
Slide9Chewing Tobacco
Leukoplakia
Mouth Cancer
Throat Cancer
Slide10Slide11What Tobacco Does to Our Body
Respiratory System
Chronic bronchitis
Emphysema
Lung Cancer
Slide12Slide13What Tobacco Does to Our Body
Circulatory System
Makes the heart work harder, speeds up pulse
Constricts blood vessels (cuts off circulation)
Nicotine contributes to plaque build-up in blood vessels (arteriosclerosis)
Raises blood pressure
All of these factors contribute to a higher risk of stroke and heart attack.
Slide14Effects of Smoke on a Non-Smoker
Passive smoke= Mainstream +
Sidestream
smoke
Causes eye irritation, headaches, coughing, ear infections, asthma attacks
Kills almost 4,000 people per year
Slide15Smoking During and After Pregnancy
Low birth weight babies
Possible spontaneous abortion, prenatal death, and stillborns
Nicotine can be transferred during breastfeeding
Slide16Benefits of Not Smoking
Being able to taste food and having the full sense of smell
Having endurance and energy during physical activity
Being able to use money for other things
Being free from addiction to nicotine
Reducing the risks of heart disease, cancer, & leading respiratory diseases
Slide17Slide18When you look at the following ads, ask yourself what kind of image is being sold?
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