Smoking and Your Lungs

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Smoking and Your Lungs
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Human Respiratory System

• The human respiratory system consists of nasal
  passages, pharynx. larynx, trachea, bronchi,
  bronchioles, alveoli and lungs.
• It is designed to bring fresh oxygen in and
  exchange it for carbon dioxide which is then
  removed from the body.

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Healthy Lungs

• These photos show the lungs of a healthy
  individual.

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Smokers Lungs

• These photos show the lungs of a smoker.

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Can you see a difference?
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Effects of Smoking Tobacco

• The next few slides will outline for you how
  smoking tobacco can harm your lungs.
• It will explain the effect of smoking on specific
  parts of your respiratory system.

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How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs

• Smoking will damage your lungs natural ability
  to clean and repair themselves.
• This means cancer causing chemicals will be
  trapped in the tissues of your lungs.
• This is because the cilia and mucus lining are
  damaged an cannot remove the chemicals

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How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs

• Smoking will permanently damage the alveoli and
  make it very difficult to breathe.
• The smoke reduces the ability of the alveoli to
  stretch which makes it hard for you to take in
  oxygen.

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Signs of Lung Damage from Smoking

• Feeling out of breath when walking up a short
  flight of stairs.
• Coughing (smokers cough)
• Spitting up mucus
• Reoccurring chest infections

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Other side effects of smoking

• Can lead to health problems such as heart
  disease, stroke, emphysema, and COPD.
• Smoking can lead to many types of cancer
  including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder
  cancer.
• Increased risk of osteoporosis, pneumonia and
  bronchitis.
• Can cause fertility problems.

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Other side effects of smoking

• Unhealthy skin smoking can prevent oxygen and
  nutrients from getting to the skin which causes
  wrinkles.
• Yellow teeth and Bad breath persistent bad
  breath known as halitosis.
• Hair and clothes smell bad
• Reduced athletic performance
• Increased risk of illness.

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What causes all the damage?

• The following slide is a list of some of the
  chemicals found in cigarettes.
• There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes and
  many of them are known causes of cancer!

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Chemicals in Cigarettes!

• Carbon monoxide (found in car exhaust)
• Arsenic (rat poison)
• Ammonia (found in window cleaner)
• Acetone (found in nail polish remover)
• Hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison)
• Napthalene (found in moth balls)
• Sulphur compounds (found in matches)
• Lead
• Volatile alcohol
• Formaldehyde (used as an embalming fluid)
• Butane (lighter fluid)

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What about nicotine?

• Nicotine is a drug found in tobacco plants.
• It is a lethal poison and it can kill a person in
  less than an hour if it is injected into the
  bloodstream.
• Each cigarette contains very tiny amounts of
  nicotine that over time cause you to become
  addicted to cigarettes and causes many health
  problems.

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Kicking the habit

• If you are a smoker it is never to late to quit.
• Although some damage is permanent people who quit
  will notice a significant difference in their
  health issues.
• There is help if you need it!