1. The Truth About Tobacco

2. What is Nicotine? Highly Addictive
Found in the leaves of the tobacco plant
Found in cigarettes, pipes, & smokeless tobacco
Quickly absorbed into bloodstream when smoked
Increases heart rate & blood pressure
Makes you breathe faster
**Produces all the good feelings you experience that make you want to come back for more.

3. Nicotine Each cigarette shortens your life span 7 to 11 minutes.
Every year the tobacco company spends $9.7 billion on advertising.
70% of teen smokers wish that they never started smoking.
Teen smokers get sick more often than teen non-smokers.
Teen smokers are more likely to use alcohol & other drugs.

4. Nicotine 1,200 Americans die from a smoking-related illness every day.
Smoking-related illnesses claim more American lives than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, & illegal drugs combined.
Smoking is the #1 cause to PREVENTABLE DEATH in the United States.

6. What Does Smoking Do To The Body?
Teeth: Stained Brown
Lungs: Cancer & Emphysema
Fingers: Stained by burning cigarettes

7. What Does Smoking Do To The Body?
Mouth: Bad breath, dull taste buds, cancer (throat)
75% of reported throat cancer cases are due to smoking.
Tracheotomy: A hole is cut into the throat (trachea)in order to help them breathe & talk.
Heart: Blood vessels narrow,
increased risk of heart disease (BP)
Digestive System: Stomach ulcers

8. F A L S E Smokeless Tobacco TRUE or FALSE
Since you chew it & spit out the juices, smokeless tobacco is a better alternative to smoking cigarettes.
F A L S E

9. Smokeless Tobacco Users put between gums & cheeks Also known as…
Let it set in your mouth, suck out all the juices, & spit often to get rid of all the extra saliva that builds up
The “sucking” & “chewing” allows nicotine to be absorbed into the bloodstream through tissue in the mouth
Also known as…
Spit tobacco
Chewing tobacco
Chew
Chaw
Dip
Plug

10. Smokeless Tobacco…What’s the Big Deal??
Who does it?
20% of teenage boys
1/3 of total users are under the age of 21
Peer pressure
What’s the risk?
ADDICTING…always need a little more for the same affect.
Bad breath
Yellow teeth
Cracking/bleeding gums
Receding gums (teeth can fall out!)
Cancer

11. What Does Tobacco Cost #1
Cost of one pack x # of days in a week = $ spent in one week
$38.50
$ x 7 =
That’s equal to 38 Candy Bars!

12. What Does Tobacco Cost #2
Cost of one pack x days = $ spent in 1 month
$165.00
$ x =
That’s equal to 1 pair of UGG boots!

13. What Does Tobacco Cost #3
Cost spent in 1 week (answer #1) x weeks = $ spent in 1 year $
$ x =
That is equal to six 32” Vizio TV’s, a DVD Player & 10 DVDS!

14. What Does Tobacco Cost #4
$ spend in 1 year x years = $ saved over 10 years
$20,020.00
$ x =
That’s equal to a brand new 2012 Chevy Equinox!

15. What Does Tobacco Cost #5
20 cigarettes per day x 8 minutes = Minutes taken daily
160 minutes or about 2 ½ hours
Minutes taken daily x # of days in 35 years = Minutes in a lifetime
x 12, =
2,044,000 minutes or 34,066 hours