 What is tobacco?  a preparation of the nicotine-rich leaves of an American plant, which are cured by a process of drying and fermentation for smoking or chewing  Nicotine is addictive sustance which leads the body to become physically dependant upon it

 Cigarettes  Chewing Tobacco  Snuff (dip)  Pipe Tobacco  Cigars  Herbal Cigarettes  Vapes or Vapor Cigarrettes  Hookah

 Nicotine  Addictive drug found in tobacco  Carcinogens  Chemicals or agents that cause cancer  Tar  Sticky, black substance in tobacco smoke that coats the inside of the airways sd ▪ Cyanide- poisonous gas ▪ Formaldehyde- used to preserve laboratory animals ▪ Lead- dangerous metals ▪ Vinyl chloride- flammable gas ▪ Carbon Monoxide- gas that blocks oxygen getting into bloodstream

 Cigarette smoke kills more that 400,000 people in the US each year!

 Stimulates the brain reward system  Increases heart rate and blood pressure  Inscreases breathing rate  Increases blood sugar levels  Stimulates the vomit reflex  Makes your breath, clothes stink as well as specks of black debris in your teeth

 Emphysema  Respiratory disease in which air cannot move in and out of the lungs because the alveoli becomes blocked or loose their elasticity  People who have emphysema cannot breathe normally  Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD)  Combination of chronic bronchitis and obstructive emphysema

 Sidestream Smoke  Smoke that escapes from the cigarette, cigar or pipe  Mainstream Smoke  Smoke that is inhaled through a tobacco product and exhaled by a tobacco smoker  2 nd Hand Smoke  Combination of exhaled mainstream smoke and side stream smoke

 Lung cancer from 2 nd hand smoke kills 3000 nonsmokers in US each year  2 nd hand smoke causes illness (headaches, nausea and dizziness)  Children of 2 nd hand smoke suffer from more lower respiratory infections, more asthma, ear infections

 Smoking while pregnant can lead to:  Miscarriage, premature birth, low birth weight  SIDS  Sudden infant death syndrome is higher in homes where someone smokes  Development difficulties  Fetus’ brain is affected and children can be dependent upon nicotine when they are born  2 nd Hand Smoke  150,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia in babies each year

 Social- family and friends do  Curiosity- curious about Tobacco  Rebellion- ‘fightin the man’  Advertising- effective marketing

 Cost to Family  Over $1500 per year for tobacco products  Lost wages due to illness  Medical bills  Funeral costs  Costs to Society  $138 billion per year in financial costs to smoking  Tobacco and the Law  Companies pay high fines if caught selling tobacco to minors

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