1 Smoking

2 Gateway Drugs  Gateway drugs, are types of drugs that lead to the use of other more powerful drugs!

3 Types of Tobacco  Cigarettes  Cigars  Pipes  Chewing Tobacco

4 The Facts on Smoking  Approximately 26% of the US population age 12 and older smokes.  Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.  Tobacco kills more than 430,000 United States citizens each year, more than alcohol, Illegal drugs, murders, fires, car accidents, and AIDS combined.

5 The Facts on Smoking  One can of dip can give you more nicotine than over 60 cigarettes.  Each year 600 out of 8,000 deaths, from tobacco are from oral cancer.

6 Nicotine  It is highly addictive chemical found in all tobacco.  Nicotine is only one of more than 4000 harmful chemicals found in tobacco, at least 43 are know to cause cancer.  Nicotine is absorbed through your lungs when you smoke tobacco.  Nicotine is also absorbed through your mouth when you chew tobacco.  When your body absorbs nicotine it enters the blood stream and flows to your brain in 7 seconds.

7 Nicotine  Nicotine is so addictive that people continue to smoke or use tobacco regardless of the health risks.  90% of the people who smoke would like to quit, but each year fewer than 10% are successful

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9 Why Kids Smoke  They think smoking is cool  Want to be like adults  Because their friends are doing it (Peer pressure)  Because parents do it, make it seem alright for kids.  NONE OF THESE ARE GOOD REASONS TO START SMOKING

10 Sean at 17

11 Sean at 19 Know what your dipping into! Tobacco use can change your great smile.