The Effect of Smoking on Teens

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The Effect of Smoking on Teens

• By Brittany Smith-Hirsch

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Introduction

• Smoking can have serious effects on your life.
• The longer you smoke, the more damage you do to
  your body and your health.
• Most people who begin smoking as teens say that
  they had never started.
• The decision to start or continue smoking is all
  up to you and no one can make you stop.

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What Makes a Cigarette?

• Cigarettes contain about 4000 chemicals, and
  these are some of the worst
• Nicotine A deadly poison
• Arsenic Used in rat poison
• Methane A component of rocket fuel
• Ammonia Found in floor cleaner
• Cadmium Used in batteries
• Carbon Monoxide Part of
• car exhaust
• Butane Lighter fluid
• Hydrogen Cyanide The
• poison used in gas chambers

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Addiction

• Tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly
  addictive.
• The body and mind quickly become used to the
  nicotine which causes them to need it just to
  feel normal.

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How smoking affects your health

• Diminished or extinguished sense of smell and
  taste
• Frequent colds
• Smokers cough
• Gastric ulcers
• Chronic bronchitis
• Increase in heart rate and blood pressure
• Wrinkles
• Emphysema
• Heart disease
• Stroke
• Cancer of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, lungs,
  pancreas, cervix, uterus, and bladder
• Stains your teeth

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The cost of Smoking

• A pack of cigarettes costs about 5.00. Even if
  you only smoke a couple packs a week, youre
  spending about 40 a month and 480 per year on
  smoking.

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Smoking Facts

• 1 out of 3 smokers die from smoking
• Smoking is responsible for close to 450,000
  deaths each year
• Young smokers are 100 times more likely to smoke
  pot and become addicted to other illegal
  substances.
• Nearly 50 million Americans Smoke
• Nine out of ten tobacco users start before they
  are 18
• Today, 22 of high schoolers smoke, down from 36
  just 7 years ago
• Smoking reduces the rate of lung growth
• Someone who smokes a pack or more a day lives 7
  years less than someone who never smoked.
• Smokers get 3 times more cavities
• Teen smokers have smaller lunges and weaker
  hearts than non-smokers
• Each time a smoker lights up, that single
  cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the
  persons life

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The biggest misconception about smokingLosing
weight

• Many people begin smoking because of the myth
  that smoking helps you lose weight.
• This causes them to not quite because they dont
  want to gain weight.
• In reality they do gain a little weight but not
  enough to change how they look.
• Often people confuse the craving of nicotine with
  hunger and eat to try and make this uncomfortable
  feeling go away.
• Smokers are also used to having something in
  their hands and in their mouth.
• In order to keep from doing these things after
  quitting, try these
• Drink sips of water instead of eating when you
  feel uncomfortable.
• Eat healthy foods such as celery or carrots
• Exercise

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Summary

• Think about it this way when you decide to start
  smoking, you are doing exactly what tobacco
  companies want you to d. They spend millions of
  dollars every year on advertising to try and get
  new people, especially teens, to smoke. Once they
  have you hooked they are controlling you. You are
  forced to buy their products in order to support
  your addiction.

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Works Cited List

• Neil Isenburg (2004, June) Smoking
  http//www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacc
  o/smoking.html
• Health effects of Smoking Among Young People
  (2005, January) http//www.cdc.gov/tobacco/researc
  h_data/youth/stspta5.htm
• The Center For Young Womens Health Information
  about Smoking A guide for Teens. (2006, March)
  http//www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html
• Northeast Communities Against Substance Abuse
  Tips for Teens about Smoking. http//www.ctprevent
  ion.org/necasa/tips_teens/tips_teens_smoke.html