SPONGE

1. List two ways that tobacco can be harmful to you.

2. What is another product that contains nicotine besides cigarettes?

Tobacco, Nicotine and Drugs - Day 1

Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Section 1

Tobacco

Intro

• Write down your two favorite physical activities.

• Now let’s exercise for a few minutes and take our pulse.

Nicotine• Tobacco is a plant that contains

nicotine. It can be smoked in cigars, cigarettes and pipes or chewed as chewing tobacco.

• Nicotine is a drug that speeds up your heartbeat and your metabolism.

• Nicotine dulls the taste buds, constricts blood vessels and increases blood pressure.

What’s in Tobacco

Products?

• Nicotine is nearly as addictive as drugs like heroin and cocaine. – Though 75% of smokers say they

want to quit, less than 50% will be able to.

– Of those that are able to quit, most have to try and fail many times before accomplishing their goal.

– Even then they will still want to smoke most of the time.

– Teen smoking often begins when a person suffers from depression.

What’s in Tobacco Products?• Carcinogens: Chemicals that cause cancer.• Tar: Lines and blackens your lungs from

smoking.

What’s in Tobacco Products?

• Carbon Monoxide: a poisonous gas that interferes with the blood’s ability to carry oxygen.

How Tobacco Affects the Body

• As the smoke you breath in floods your lungs it damages the alveoli, making it very hard to breath.–Alveoli are the tiny air

sacs in your lungs where oxygen binds to your blood.

–Emphysema is a disease in which the alveoli are damaged or destroyed.

How Tobacco Affects the Body• The Surgeon General has warned for years that

smoking also causes cancer, the uncontrolled growth of cells.

• Cancer often spreads through the body, eventually becoming fatal.

How Tobacco Affects the Body–Smoking damages the cilia

of your lungs, keeping them from cleaning your lungs.

–Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD: The lungs are damaged to the point that mucus constantly builds in your lungs and alveoli are damaged, making it very hard to breath.

Other Affects of the Body• Tobacco puts you at risk

for heart disease, stroke, stomach ulcers, bladder cancer, throat cancer, lung cancer, teeth stains and smelling unpleasant.

• Smoking also causes your skin to crack and wrinkle.

• Finally, smoking will result in a premature death.

Other Affects of the Body• Smoking is a serious

health problem for unborn babies. They may be killed from the effects of smoking.

• Those who live are often born premature (early) and small and can be ill for the rest of their lives.

Smokeless Tobacco• Smokeless tobacco, or snuff,

is finely ground tobacco that you hold in your mouth and chew.

• Snuff may seem safer because it lacks tar and carbon monoxide, but it is still addictive.

• Chew also causes cancer of the mouth and gum cancer called oral cancer.

Smokeless Tobacco• The juice made by chewing

causes white spots on the gums and on the insides of the cheeks called Leukoplakia.

• Leukoplakia can become cancerous.

• Chewing tobacco also harms the stomach, causes ulcers, damages your innards, and stains and wears down teeth.

Smoking and Activity

• Now let’s exercise again. The straws represent how smokers have to breath through obstructed lungs.

• Take your pulse again.1. Describe how you felt breathing

through the straw.2. How would smoking affect your

two favorite activities?

Tobacco Math

= $ 13.50 a week

Do the math for the year:

= $ 702 a year (70 hours of work)

• How much does it cost to smoke?– Say you only smoked 3 packs a week (one

pack = $4.50):

Do the math for 40 years: = $ 28,080.00

Tobacco Math

Try two packs a day for a week:

= $ 63.00 a weekTwo packs a day for a year?

= $ 3,276.00 Two packs a day for life? (40 more years)

= $ 131,040.00 if prices never went up!

“Make It True” Project• Choose a smoking or alcohol

advertisement and draw your own version of the ad by showing what it would look life in real life.

• Use facts about smoking or drinking when drawing your ad.

• Your ad should resemble the original ad.

• The ad can be funny, dramatic or even a bit gross, but remember to keep it appropriate!

• Your ad should clearly be anti-smoking or ant-drinking.

• Change the words from the original ad. • Color your ad.