Dangers of Youth Tobacco Use

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Dangers of Youth Tobacco Use

• By Danielle, Rebecca, Tosha, Jamie, and Sky
• Sponsored By Aberdeen Area Career Planning
  Center, Inc
• Youth Tobacco Prevention Group

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SD Tobacco Statistics

• 30 (14,300) of high school students smoke and
  23.5 of students chew.
• 1,600 kids (under 18) become daily smokers each
  year.
• 3.6 million packs of cigarettes bought by kids
  each year.
• 45,000 kids exposed to second hand smoke at home
  (tobaccofreekids.org).

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First Time Smokers

• Nationally, each day about 4,000 kids (under 18)
  try smoking for the first time, and another
  15,000 kids become new regular daily smokers.
• First time smokers often feel pain or burning in
  the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick
  or even throw up the first few times they try
  tobacco.
• Reasons teens start smoking look older, to
  relax, feel rebellious, gives them something to
  do, or family members smoke (kidshealth.org).

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Facts about Smoking

• Nearly 3 million U.S. teenagers smoke. The
  earlier a person starts smoking, the greater the
  risk to his or her health and the harder it is to
  quit.
• High school students who smoke cigarettes are
  more likely to take risks such as ignoring seat
  belts, getting into physical fights, carrying
  weapons, and having sex at an earlier age.
• Tobacco is considered to be a gateway drug
  which may lead to alcohol, marijuana, and other
  illegal drug use (www.aacap.org).

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Negative Effects of Smoking

• Tobacco use kills more then 400,000 Americans
  each year more then alcohol, aids, car crashes
  illegal drugs, murders, and suicides COMBINED.
• Babies of women who smoke during pregnancy are
  more likely to have lower birth weights, an
  increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome,
  and respiratory distress (cdc.gov).

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Facts about Chew

• Chewing tobacco contains 28 cancer causing
  agents.
• A estimated 7.6 million Americans age 12 and
  older had used smokeless tobacco in the past
  month.
• Smokeless tobacco use was most common among young
  adults 18-25.
• Men were 10 times more likely than women to
  report using chew (National Cancer Institute).

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Negative Effects of Chewing

• Bad breath and yellowish-brown stains on your
  teeth. Cracking and bleeding lips and gums, mouth
  sores. Receding gums, which can eventually make
  your teeth fall out.
• Increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and
  irregular heartbeats , all leading to a greater
  risk of heart attacks and brain damage (from a
  stroke), and Cancer (kidshealth.org).

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Facts about Second Hand Smoke

• Secondhand smoke, is the combination of smoke
  emitted from the burning end of a cigarette,
  cigar, or pipe, and smoke exhaled by the smoker.
• The known health effects of exposure to
  secondhand smoke include lung cancer, nasal,
  sinus cancer, respiratory tract infections, and
  heart disease.
• Secondhand smoke contains at least 60 carcinogens
  (substances that cause cancer) (National Cancer
  Institute)

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Negative Effects of Second Hand Smoke

• Each year, primarily because of exposure to
  secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking
  Americans die of lung cancer, and more than
  35,000 die of heart disease.
• An estimated 150,000-300,000 children younger
  than 18 months of age have lower respiratory
  tract infections because of exposure to
  secondhand smoke (National Cancer Institute).

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Toxins in Tobacco

• Cigarette smoke contain more then 4,000 chemical
  compounds.
• Some of the ingredients
• Ammonia (toilet cleaner)
• Acetone (paint stripper)
• Formaldehyde (preserve dead frogs)
• Toluene (poisonous industrial solvent)
• Arsenic (in rat poison)
• Polonium 210 (radioactive element)
• Hydrogen cyanide (in rat poison)
• Carbon Monoxide (poisonous gas)
• (kickbuttsday.org)

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Life Span of Smokers

• Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of
  death in the US, resulting in approximately
  440,000 deaths each year (cdc.gov).
• Adult male smokers lose an average of 13 years of
  life and adult female smokers lose an average of
  15 years of life (kickbuttsday.org).

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Health Problems Related To Smoking

• There are 8.5 million people with diseases caused
  by smoking.
• Lung cancer, throat cancer, heart disease, stroke
  and emphysema are just some of the painful,
  life-threatening diseases linked with smoking.
• Smoking is also associated with cancers of the
  mouth, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, cervix,
  kidney, stomach and bladder (kickbuttsday.org).

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SD Health Costs

• 252 million annual health care costs in SD
  directly caused by smoking and 217 million in
  lost productivity.
• Residents state federal tax burden from
  smoking- caused government expenditures runs
  about 542 per household (tobaccofreekids.org).
• Nationally more than 75 billion per year in
  medical expenditures and another 80 billion per
  year resulting from lost productivity (cdc.gov).

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Cost of Tobacco Use

• You can save up to about 3,000 a year if you
  quit smoking.
• In 2002 U.S. consumers spent about 88.2 billon
  on tobacco products.
• Nationwide tobacco marketing is 15.4 billion per
  year and the estimated portion spent in SD is
  42.6 million (tobaccofreekids.org).

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How Tobacco is Advertised to Teens

• Tobacco advertising emphasizes themes (sexual
  attraction, social acceptance, thinness, and
  independence) which appeals to youth
  (smokefreekids.com).
• A survey released in March 2005 showed that youth
  are more than two times as likely to recall
  having seen tobacco ads.
• The tobacco industry increased its spending on
  advertising and promotion by 2.7billon between
  2002-2003 (kickbuttsday.org).

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Ways to Say No

• Be Direct
• No, thanks. Im not into that.
• Id rather spend my money on other stuff.
• Reverse the Pressure
• Is this what you do to be cool?
• I bet you cant go a weekend without smoking.
• Humor
• No, thanks. I like my teeth white not yellow.
• No, thanks. My boyfriend/girlfriend doesnt like
  kissing an ashtray (keepkidsfromsmoking.com).

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Benefits of Quitting

• Your blood pressure, pulse, and body temperature,
  which were abnormally elevated by nicotine,
  return to normal.
• As a former smoker, your chance of dying from
  lung cancer is less than it would be if you
  continued to smoke. Your chance of getting cancer
  of the throat, bladder, kidney, or pancreas also
  decreases.
• Your body starts to heal itself. Carbon monoxide
  and oxygen levels in your blood return to normal
  (National Cancer Institute).

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Resources to Quit

• South Dakota QuitLine
• (1-866-737-8487)
• www.healthysd.gov
• www.tobaccofreekids.org
• www.kidshealth.org
• www.cdc.gov
• www.thetruth.com

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