Tobacco

Tobacco 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?

Get 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.

Why 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

What’s in a cigarette?

Acetic AcidAcetanisoleToluene Formaldehyde Geraniol Acetone Hydrazine Cadmium Cinnemaldyhyde Urea

Found in floor wipesAn ingredient in some perfumesFound in dynamite and gasoline Preserves the dead Found in pesticidesRemoves nail polish Found in rocket fuel. Found in batteries. Found in pet repellant.Found in Pee.

How 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?

Smoking 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

Chewing Tobacco

• Leukoplakia

• Mouth Cancer

• Throat Cancer

What Tobacco Does to Our Body

• Respiratory System

– Chronic bronchitis– Emphysema– Lung Cancer

What 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.

Effects 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

Smoking During and After Pregnancy

• Low birth weight babies

• Possible spontaneous abortion, prenatal death, and stillborns

• Nicotine can be transferred during breastfeeding

Benefits 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

When you look at the following ads, ask yourself what kind of image is being

sold?