Effects of Smoking on Teens

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Effects of Smoking on Teens

• By Rachel Patton

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Whats in a Cigarette?

• Ammonia- Helps absorb more nicotine.
• Arsenic- deadly poison that makes you have bad
  breath and causes lips to burn
• Cadmium- causes damage to liver, kidneys,
  brain.
• Lead- stunts growth, makes you vomit.
• Nicotine- causes addiction ranked before
  alcohol when it come to dependence.
• Benzene- cancer causing. Used to make everything
  from pesticides to detergent.
• Vanilla, Chocolate, Honey- used to be more
  appealing

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How does smoking effect Teens?

• Athletic ability- lack in performance and
  endurance.
• Heartbeat- Beats 2-3 times faster than a normal
  resting heart rate.
• Makes you cough.
• Can cause severe respiratory illness.

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Facts

• The younger you start the more addicted you can
  get.
• 80 of adult smokers started before age 18.
• Nearly everyday 3000 teens start smoking.
• 5 million children will die prematurely because
  their parents smoke
• Nearly all first use starts before high school
  graduation.
• Teens who smoke are more likely to get poor
  grades and lower self-esteems.

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How it destroys your teeth

• Bad Breath
• Discolors teeth
• Inflames salivary glands
• Increase build up of tartar plaque
• Develop gum disease
• Can develop oral cancer.

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How it effects your lungs

• Clogs up the cilia that keep your lungs clean
• When the tar cools it turns into a brown sticky
  substance that sticks to your lungs
• Lungs and airways narrow
• Some chemicals alter lung cells
• Mucus cells grow in size which cause smokers
  cough

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Connection to Alcohol, Sex, Violence

• Teens are
• 3 times more likely to drink alcohol.
• 8 times more likely to smoke marijuana.
• 22 more likely to use cocaine
• Associated with fighting engaging in
  unprotected sex.

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Ways to Quit

• Nicotine patch
• Nicotine gum
• Nicotine fading- wean your self off smoking
• Quit Smoking contract- give yourself rewards for
  not smoking
• Buddy Support-have a friend help keep you in
  check.

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Money Better Spent

• A pack can cost up to 4 these days!
• If you smoke a pack a day for a year it will cost
  around 1344
• You could buy an X-box and some games with that,
  or a TV, or DVD, or go to the movies a few
  hundred times!

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The End

• http//www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacc
  o/smoking.html
• http//www.webmd.com/content/article/108/108911.ht
  m
• http//www.irmc.org/body.cfm?id801