TOBACCO

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TOBACCO
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What is it?

• An agricultural crop
• Also known as chew dip smoke
• Can be smoked, chewed, dipped and spit out
• Brown cut up leaves
• Main ingredient is nicotine (poisonous stimulant
  drug)
• 2 other harmful ingredients are Tar and Carbon
  Monoxide

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Closer look at Nicotine

• A deadly poison found in tobacco leaves
• It is absorbed through the lungs and membranes of
  the mouth
• Found in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and
  chewing tobacco
• One drop of pure nicotine can be fatal to humans
• Highly addictive

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Short term effects

• Increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and blood
  flow from the heart
• Causes the blood vessels to narrow
• High blood pressure
• Clothes, hair smell, bad breath
• Loss of appetite
• More colds, sickness

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Long term effects

• Chronic lung disease
• Lung, larynx, esophagus, mouth, and bladder
  cancers
• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• Bronchitis, Emphysema
• Stained teeth and nails
• Wrinkles (of skin)

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Second Hand SmokeEnvironmental Tobacco Smoke

• 3,000 non-smoking Americans die annually of lung
  cancer
• 300,000 children have respiratory tract
  infections
• Contains 250 chemicals known to be toxic
• Almost 60 percent of U.S. children aged 3-11
  years (22 million children) are exposed to
  secondhand smoke.
• About 25 of children aged 311 years live with
  at least one smoker, compared to only about 7 of
  nonsmoking adults

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Chewing Tobacco

• A smokeless tobacco product which is
  chewed/sucked
• One of the oldest ways to consume leaves (Native
  Indians)
• Contains 28 carcinogens
• Cause of many oral health problems
• Leukoplakia is most common
• Common among baseball players (dip)

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Chewing Tobacco

• Cancer of the mouth
• Decay of exposed tooth roots
• Pulling away of the gums from the teeth
• White patches or red sores in the mouth that can
  turn to cancer
• As dangers as smoking tobacco
• Smokeless tobacco contains more nicotine than
  cigarettes

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Smoking fact sheet

• Shorten your life span by 6 ½ years
• 1,000 deaths per day
• 70 are more likely to die of heart disease
• 1,000 more likely to die of lung cancer
• 500 more likely to die of chronic bronchitis
• 3,000 teens start to smoke daily
• 15 of 12-17 yr olds smoke on a daily basis
• 1 billionamount of cigarettes sold to underage

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Cigarette related deaths
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Health benefits of Quitting

• People who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk
  of dying prematurely. Benefits are greater for
  people who stop at earlier ages, but cessation is
  beneficial at all ages.
• Smoking cessation lowers the risk for lung and
  other types of cancer. The risk for developing
  cancer declines with the number of years of
  smoking cessation.
• Risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, and
  peripheral vascular disease is reduced after
  smoking cessation. Coronary heart disease risk is
  substantially reduced within 1 to 2 years of
  cessation.

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Quitting (cont.)

• Cessation reduces respiratory symptoms, such as
  coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. The
  rate of decline in lung function is slower among
  persons who quit smoking.
• Women who stop smoking before or during pregnancy
  reduce their risk for adverse reproductive
  outcomes such as infertility or having a
  low-birth-weight baby.