Tobacco

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TobaccoWhat A High Risk Behavior Does To the
BodyBrenda JeanYue-Jay LiuShanika
McCorveyEmerlie-Ann St.Ange
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Why We Are Here

• To inform you about the high risk behaviors
  associated with tobacco
• To show what tobacco does to the body
• Because 6,000 teens light up there first
  cigarette everyday
• 3,000 teens become regular smokers

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• Whats In The Way of Your Airway?

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Top 10 Reasons Teens Smoke

• To seem sophisticated, older, and cooler
• Peer Pressure
• Influence of Advertisement
• They believe they quit any time
• Stimulant Effect

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Top 10 Reasons Teens Smoke

• To handle or hold something
• Relaxation/stress relief
• Social Crutch
• Deal with other cravings
• Family members

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Advertisements
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Methods of Tobacco Use

• Smoked
• Pipes
• Cigars
• Cigarettes
• Smokeless
• Chewed
• Sniffed

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Whats in Cigarettes?

• There are 599 chemicals in a cigarette
• There are 43 chemicals proven to cause cancer
• 4, 000 chemical compounds are formed when a
  cigarette is burned
• A list of the 599 chemicals can be found at
• http//www.smokefreedom.net/articles/ingrdients.h
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Whats in Cigarettes?

• Nicotine
• Poisonous and addictive stimulant
• Used as an insecticide
• Increases action of CNS e.g. heart and
  organs
• Tar
• Thick, sticky, dark fluid
• Carcinogens- cancer causing substance
• -Benzopyrene

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Whats in Cigarettes?

• Cancer Causing Chemicals
• Car antifreeze
• Toilet cleaner
• Chemicals found paint
• Cyanide
• Formaldehyde
• Arsenic
• Polonium
• Carbon monoxide

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Health Risks Associated With Tobacco Use

• Smokeless Tobacco
• - Same as smoking tobacco
• - Mouth sores
• - Damage to teeth and gums
• - Affects digestive and urinary systems
• - Delays the healing of wounds

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Health Risks contd

• Cigarette Smoking
• - Respiratory system
• -Circulatory system
• Blood vessels
• Arteries
• Increases risks of
• 1. heart attack
• 2. blood pressure
• 3. stroke

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Health Risks contd

• Secondhand Smoke
• -Passive smoke
• Pregnancy
• -Constricts blood vessels of fetus
• -Small fetal growth
• -Affects babys intellectual development
  and behavior
• -Respiratory problems

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Secondhand Smoke

• Produced from the lit end of cigarettes, cigars
  and pipes
• Also the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers
  
• Causes about 3,000 deaths each year from lung
  cancer in people who don't smoke
• Estimated to cause about 37,000 deaths per year
  from heart disease in nonsmokers

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Average Annual Number of U.S. Deaths Attributable
to Cigarette Smoking, 19951999(Total average
number, 442,532)

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High School Students Who Smoke Cigarettes,
United States, 19911999

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Tobacco In Florida

• 18.1 (146, 800) of High School students smoke
• (22.9 of All U.S. high school kids smoke)
• 8.1 of High School males use smokeless or spit
  tobacco
• (10.8 of All U.S. high school males use spit
  tobacco)
• 35, 900 kids under 18 become new daily smokers
  each year
• 692, 000 kids are exposed to secondhand smoke

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Tobacco In Florida

• 306,000 kids under 18 will ultimately die
  prematurely from smoke

• 36.7 million packs of cigarettes are smoked by
  kids each year

• 2,130 to 3,790 adult, children, and babies die
  from secondhand smoke

• 4.93 billion is spent on health care costs
  caused by smoking

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Something To Leave With You
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