Drug Abuse Education Course

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Drug Abuse Education Course
Master Sgt. Doug Oswald Assistant Drug Demand
Reduction Administrator
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Tobacco
Emphysema
Cancer
Healthy
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Tobacco Facts

• Tobacco is our countrys largest cause of
  preventable death.
• Over 430,000 Americans die annually.
• The 2nd largest addiction after alcohol.
• The active ingredient in all forms of tobacco is
  the stimulant nicotine.
• About 29.4 use tobacco of all kinds.
• The legal age for tobacco is 18.

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Who Smokes?

• Age 12-17 10.8
• Age 18-25 39.0
• Age 26 and up 24.9

• Female 22.5
• Male 27.4

• Employed full-time 28.3
• Employed part-time 25.2
• Unemployed 43.8

• High School Drop-out 34.8
• High School Graduate 31.8
• Some College 28.1
• College Graduate 13.8

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Tobacco Facts

• 20.2 of smokers use illicit drugs.
• 4.1 of non-smokers use illicit drugs.
• 67.6 of smokers use alcohol.
• 46.6 of non-smokers use alcohol.

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Tobacco Smoke

• Over 4000 chemicals are found in tobacco smoke.
• More than 40 are proven to cause cancer.
• These chemicals include

• Formaldehyde
• Hydrogen Cyanide
• Cadmium
• Pesticides
• Tar

• Ammonia
• Arsenic
• Benzene
• Nicotine
• Carbon monoxide

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Short Term Effects

• Destroys cilia hairs
• Dulls senses of taste, smell hearing
• Poor night vision
• Premature wrinkling of the skin.

• Smokers cough
• Inhibits blood from carrying oxygen
• Increases the pulse and blood pressure
• Shortens breathing

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Long Term Effects

• Directly responsible for 90 of all lung cancer
  cases.
• The cancer death rate of smokers is twice as high
  as non-smokers.
• Produces the lung disease emphysema which is
  irreversible.
• Decreases life span by about 7 years!

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