Tobacco Kills

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Tobacco Kills
More people than ALL of the deaths from AIDS,
alcohol, other drug abuse, car crashes, murders,
suicides, and fires COMBINED!!!
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Smokeless Tobacco
Smokeless tobacco is tobacco that is not smoked
or burned
Chewing Tobacco- shredded, twisted, or "bricked"
tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek
and gum.
Snuff-fine-grain tobacco that often comes in
teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip"
between their lower lip and gum.
All smokeless tobacco causes the user to produce
extra saliva, which they will spit out. This is
why it is often called spit tobacco.
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Smokeless Truths

• Dangerous carcinogens in smokeless tobacco (there
  are more than 23!)
• nitrosamines These are the most powerful
  cancer-causing agents in smokeless tobacco.
• polonium 210 radioactive particles that turn
  into radon
• formaldehyde embalming fluid
• cadmium a metallic element its salts are
  poisonous
• arsenic a metallic element which forms
  poisonous compounds

• Smokeless tobacco contains more than 3,000
  chemicals including NICOTINE. The problems with
  nicotine include
• Increased heart rate
• Increased blood pressure
• Addiction, withdrawal symptoms when not used

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What are you doing to your body?
Your skin-

• The chemicals in tobacco dry out your skin and
  cause
• Premature aging and wrinkles by 10 to 20 years
• Discoloration of the skin
• Damage to the blood vessels

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Your mouth

• The thousands of chemicals in tobacco coat the
  mouth and can lead to
• Halitosis (bad breath)
• Hairy tongue (reduces sense of taste)
• Oral cancer (lip and mouth)

Your Teeth

• Stained teeth (from the tar)
• Cavities
• Gingivitis (irritation and swelling of the gums)
• Periodontis (serious gum disease)

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Your Lungs
Chronic Bronchitis - Bronchitis (inflammation of
the bronchial passages) that recurs and does not
permanently go away.
EMPHYSEMA- Emphysema damages the alveoli. They
become large and hard, and lose their ability to
exchange air. With damaged air sacs, you cannot
get enough air to breathe, and always feel that
you cannot catch your breath. Emphysema has no
cure and cannot be undone
LUNG CANCER- Lung cancer is the most common
cause of cancer death in both men and women.
Smoking is the most common cause of this kind of
cancer. Unfortunately, lung cancer is hard to
cure.
Smokers also get more colds, coughs, flu, and
other illnesses (Like pneumonia) due to their
weaker immune system.
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• The thousands of chemicals in tobacco smoke line
  the passages of the nose when inhaled and can
  cause
• Decreased sense of smell
• Decreased immunity (cilia bogged down with
  chemicals in smoke!)

Your nose
Your Throat

• Cancer of the larnyx (voice box)
• Cancer of the esophagus

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Did you know that smoking decreases the bodies
ability to absorb calcium?
Your Bones
Smoking weakens your bones, and this can cause
you to develop a disease called osteoporosis as
you grow older. Osteoporosis is when your bones
become thin and brittle, and are more likely to
break.
Smoking also impairs an athletes ability to
perform as well. The chemicals in tobacco can
cause a rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation
and shortness of breath. Smoking also affects
the bodys ability to produce collagen, so common
sports injuries like those to ligaments and
tendons, heal more slowly in smokers.
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Your Brain
STROKE-
A stroke is a lack of blood flow to the brain,
due to a blockage in a blood vessel or bursting
of a blood vessel. Severe disability and even
death can result from a stroke. Smoking
cigarettes is related to high blood pressure and
to hardening of the arteries, both of which can
cause a stroke.
Did you know...
Smoking and mental health problems are linked to
each other in complicated ways. Smokers have
higher rates of several mental health problems --
including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and
drug abuse -- than nonsmokers do.
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Your Heart
The poisons in cigarette smoke are carried
everywhere the blood flows
The chemicals in tobacco smoke cause your blood
vessels to constrict, or become narrow, which
allows less blood through.
Blood Vessels-
The nicotine in tobacco is a stimulant drug that
increases the heart rate and blood pressure
leading to high blood pressure.
Hypertension
Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes blood vessels
to become narrow, reducing the oxygen supply to
the heart muscle. Smoking can also lead to
arteriosclerosis, which increases the risk of a
heart attack.
Heart Diseases-
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Digestive System
Ulcers-
An ulcer is a sore or hole in the stomach.
Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes extra stomach
acid to form. This extra acid can lead to an
ulcer. Continued smoking can keep an ulcer from
healing.
Stomach Cancer
The tar and other carcinogens in tobacco smoke
can cause cancer of the stomach
Increased risk of colon cancer
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If the mother is smoking during pregnancy, the
baby is smoking too!
The chemicals in tobacco smoke, specifically the
nicotine and carbon monoxide, reduce the amount
of oxygen and other nutrients the baby needs to
grow and develop properly. Smoking during
pregnancy can cause
Smoking and

• Miscarriage and Stillbirth (Pregnancy ends )

• Preterm labor (Go into labor too early)

• Low birth weight (Organs may be underdeveloped,
  especially the lungs)

• Placental Problems

Pregnancy

• Increased risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death
  Syndrome)

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Side stream smoke (the smoke that comes from the
burning tip of a cigarette) contains more than
4,000 chemicals, including 200 known poisons and
43 carcinogens
Second hand
DANGERS

• How is it dangerous to nonsmokers?
• Nausea, headaches, dizziness
• Trigger allergic reactions and asthma attacks
• Cause emphysema , cancers, and heart diseases
• This is why smoking is BANNED in public
  places!

Children of smokers have more colds, flu, middle
ear infections, allergies and asthma than
children of nonsmokers do!
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Addiction
Gingivitis and tooth loss
Leukoplakia
Mouth and Throat Cancers
DANGERS
High Blood Pressure
Ulcers
STROKE
Heart Attack
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