1. Tobacco Health Risks- Day 1 Choosing to live Tobacco Free-Day 2
Promoting a Smoke-Free Environment- Day 3
Review- Day 4
Test- Day 5

2. Day 1
Health Risks

3. The chemicals in all tobacco products harm the body.

4. addictive drug
nicotine
stimulant
carcinogen
tar
carbon monoxide
smokeless tobacco

5. Health Risks of Tobacco Use
All forms of tobacco contain chemicals that are dangerous to your health.
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the United States.

6. Health Risks of Tobacco Use
Any form of tobacco use, such as smoking, chewing, or dipping tobacco, can cause health problems.
Smoking has been linked to lung disease, cancers, and heart disease.

7. Health Risks of Tobacco Use
About 90 percent of adult smokers began the habit as teenagers.
It’s easier to avoid tobacco use rather than quit later.

8. Nicotine
Tobacco users have difficulty quitting because tobacco contains an addictive drug.
Addictive drug
A substance that causes physiological or psychological dependence

9. Nicotine All tobacco products contain nicotine. Nicotine
The addictive drug found in tobacco leaves

10. Nicotine
Nicotine is a stimulant that raises blood pressure and increases the heart rate.
Stimulant
A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs

11. Symptoms of Nicotine Withdrawl
Anxiety
Irritability
Sleep Disturbances

12. Poisonous Substances in Tobacco Smoke
Tobacco is an addictive and toxic drug and a carcinogen.
Carcinogen
A cancer-causing substance

13. Tar Cigarette smoke contains tar. Tar
A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns

14. damaging lung tissue/reduces lung function
Tar
paralyzing and destroying cilia
Tar damages a smoker’s respiratory system by
destroying the alveoli
damaging lung tissue/reduces lung function

15. Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide is also in cigarette smoke. It deprives the body’s tissues and cells of oxygen.
Carbon monoxide
A colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas

16. Pipes, Cigars, and Smokeless Tobacco
No tobacco product is safe to use.
The dangers of tobacco use are not limited to smoking cigarettes.

17. Pipes, Cigars, and Smokeless Tobacco
Cigarette filters do not protect smokers from more than 50 carcinogens, including cyanide and arsenic, which are in tobacco products.

18. Pipes, Cigars, and Smokeless Tobacco
The smoke from pipes and cigars also causes serious health consequences.
Cigars contain significantly more nicotine and produce more tar and carbon monoxide than cigarettes.

19. Pipes, Cigars, and Smokeless Tobacco
The harmful chemicals of smokeless tobacco are absorbed into the body at levels up to three times the amount of a single cigarette.
Smokeless tobacco
Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed

20. Harmful Effects of Tobacco Use
Tobacco use causes both short-term and long-term damage to your body.
Health officials have warned the public about the dangers of tobacco use for several decades.

21. Long-Term Effects Short-Term Effects Brain chemistry changes.
Respiration and heart rate increase.
Taste buds are dulled and appetite is reduced.
Bad breath, yellowed teeth, and smelly hair, skin, and clothes.

22. Short-Term Effects Long-Term Effects Chronic bronchitis Emphysema
Lung cancer
Coronary heart disease and stroke
A weakened immune system

23. Long-Term Effects Smokers cause severe damage to their lungs.
Compare the healthy lung on the left with the one damaged by tobacco on the right.

24. Cardiovascular System
Long-Term Effects
Cardiovascular System
Increased heart rate and blood pressure
Hardened arteries, decreased blood flow
Heart attack, stroke
Nervous System
Addiction
Stroke
Respiratory System
Coughing
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer

25. Long-Term Effects Excretory System Digestive System
Cancer of the bladder
Cancer of the kidneys
Digestive System
Cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus
Gum recession, tooth decay, tooth loss
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
Cancers of the stomach and pancreas

26. Long-Term Effects

27. Other Consequences of Tobacco Use
As well as health risks, tobacco use is costly.
Making the decision to avoid the use of tobacco products will safeguard your health.

28. Other Consequences of Tobacco Use
Tobacco-related illnesses cost the United States about $165 billion each year.
Costs to Society
Costs to Individuals
A person smoking one pack of cigarettes a day will spend about $1,500 a year on the habit.
Legal Consequences
Selling tobacco products to minors is illegal. Using tobacco at school can lead to suspension or expulsion.

29. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is an addictive drug? What is the addictive drug in tobacco?
A substance that causes physiological or psychological dependence; nicotine

30. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List three types of toxic substances found in cigarette smoke. Why are these substances harmful?
Nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide; nicotine causes addiction, tar causes such diseases as emphysema and lung cancer, carbon monoxide deprives the body of oxygen.

31. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Explain four ways using tobacco immediately affects your body.
Any four: Brain chemistry changes; respiration and heart rates increase; taste buds are dulled; appetite is reduced; users have bad breath, yellowed teeth, and smelly clothes

32. Choosing to Live Tobacco Free
Day 2
Choosing to Live Tobacco Free

33. Avoiding tobacco use will bring lifelong health benefits.

34. nicotine withdrawal
nicotine substitute

35. Teens and Tobacco Fewer teens are starting to use tobacco.
Knowing the health risks of tobacco use helps teens make the healthful decision to stay tobacco-free.

36. Why Some Teens Use Tobacco
False Belief
The Truth
Smoking helps control weight
Smoking reduces the capacity for physical activity, so it may lead to weight gain.
Smoking helps cope with stress
Nicotine addiction and tobacco-related health problems increase stress.

37. Why Some Teens Use Tobacco
Others believe that smoking will make them seem mature and independent.
Media images may convince teens that tobacco use is glamorous.

38. Reduced Tobacco Use Among Teens
The CDC reports that 77 percent of high school students nationwide do not smoke.
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005

39. Reduced Tobacco Use Among Teens
Reasons Teens Are Smoking Less
Tobacco Legislation
No-Smoking Policies
Family Values
Positive Peer Pressure
Health Risks

40. Reduced Tobacco Use Among Teens
Teens who choose a tobacco-free lifestyle will feel mentally and physically better than teens who use tobacco.

41. Benefits of Living Tobacco-Free
A tobacco-free lifestyle has many benefits.
The best way to avoid the negative consequences of tobacco use is never to start using tobacco products.

42. Benefits of Living Tobacco-Free
You will have better health and fewer health risks.
Physical Benefits
Mental/Emotional Benefits
You will have less stress and a sense of freedom.
Social Benefits
You will look and feel better.

43. Strategies for Avoiding Tobacco
Surround yourself with positive influences.
Use these strategies to stick to your decision to live tobacco-free.
Reduce peer pressure.
Be prepared with refusal skills.

44. Strategies for Avoiding Tobacco
Choose friends who support a tobacco-free lifestyle.

45. Quitting Tobacco Use There are good reasons for quitting tobacco use.
Health care professionals can help tobacco users find the resources they need to successfully quit using tobacco.

46. Teens who use tobacco give these reasons for quitting:
Quitting Tobacco Use
Teens who use tobacco give these reasons for quitting:
They begin to have health problems, such as asthma, coughing, or respiratory infections.
They realize the high cost of tobacco or find it difficult to purchase tobacco products if they are under 18.
They realize that using tobacco can lead to other risky behaviors, such as the use of alcohol and other drugs.
They understand the damaging effects of secondhand smoke and do not want to harm others.
They feel more powerful because they are not controlled by an addiction to nicotine.

47. Ending the Addiction Cycle
Symptoms of nicotine withdrawal include irritability, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and cravings for tobacco.
Nicotine withdrawal
The process that occurs in the body when nicotine, an addictive drug, is no longer used

48. Ending the Addiction Cycle
Smoking while using nicotine substitutes is dangerous due to increased nicotine exposure.
Nicotine substitutes
Products that deliver small amounts of nicotine into the user’s system while he or she is trying to give up the tobacco habit

49. Getting Help to Quit Tobacco Use
Replace tobacco use with healthy behaviors.
Access professional health services.
Get support and encouragement.
Prepare for the quit day.

50. Getting Help to Quit Tobacco Use
Health care professionals can help tobacco users find the resources they need to successfully quit using tobacco.

51. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are four reasons that smoking among teens is on a downward trend?
Sample answer: Anti-tobacco messages, expense, no smoking policies, positive peer pressure

52. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List three reasons that you might use to convince a friend to quit using tobacco products.
Sample answer: Cost, health problems, hard to buy

53. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Why might some people use nicotine substitutes when quitting smoking?
A nicotine substitute delivers small amounts of nicotine into the user’s system while the user is trying to quit a tobacco habit.

54. Promoting a Smoke-Free Environment
Day 3
Promoting a Smoke-Free Environment

55. Secondhand smoke is harmful, but there are ways to reduce exposure.

56. environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
mainstream smoke
sidestream smoke
Healthy People

57. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
Tobacco smoke can harm nonsmokers.
Nonsmokers who breathe air containing tobacco smoke are also at risk for health problems.

58. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also called secondhand smoke.
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
Air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke

59. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
Environmental tobacco smoke is composed of
mainstream smoke and
sidestream smoke.

60. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
Because mainstream smoke has been exhaled by a smoker, it contains lower concentrations of carcinogens, nicotine, and tar.
Mainstream smoke
The smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker

61. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
Sidestream smoke is more dangerous than mainstream smoke.
Sidestream smoke
The smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar

62. Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke
ETS from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds.
More than 50 of those chemicals are cancer-causing carcinogens.

63. Health Risks to Nonsmokers
ETS causes eye irritation, headaches, ear infections, and coughing.
It worsens asthma and other respiratory problems, and it increases the risk of lung cancer and coronary heart disease.

64. Health Risks to Unborn Children and Infants
impaired fetal growth
spontaneous miscarriage and prenatal death
Smoking during pregnancy reduces blood oxygen levels, increasing the risk of
premature delivery
low birth weight
deformities
stillbirths

65. Health Risks to Unborn Children and Infants
Infants exposed to ETS after birth are twice as likely to die of SIDS.
They may have severe asthma attacks, ear infections, or respiratory tract infections.

66. Health Risks to Young Children
The children of smokers are more than twice as likely to smoke themselves.
They also have a higher incidence of
sore throats
ear infections
upper respiratory problems

67. Health Risks to Young Children
Parents protect the health and development of their children by staying tobacco-free.

68. Reducing Your Risks You can take action to reduce the effects of ETS.
Express your preference wherever you can for a smoke-free environment.

69. Reducing Your Risks       Encourage smokers to quit.
Establish smoke-free areas in the house. 
Make a rule that smokers go outside. 
Use air cleaners to remove some contaminants from the air. 
Open windows to allow fresh air in. 
Don’t allow visitors to smoke inside your home. 

70. Reducing Your Risks When visiting a home in which someone smokes:
stay outside or in a different room as much as possible.
When visiting a home in which someone smokes:
ask to open the windows to provide fresh air.
suggest meeting elsewhere, such as in your home or at a library.

71. Creating a Smoke-Free Society
In most states, it is illegal to sell tobacco to teens under the age of 18, and it is illegal to smoke in public places.
In the United States, efforts to create a smoke-free society continue to grow.

72. Creating a Smoke-Free Society
Smoking is prohibited in many restaurants, and some restaurants are required to have a nonsmoking section.

73. Supporting National Health Goals
One of the goals of Healthy People 2010 is to reduce tobacco use and the number of tobacco-related deaths.
States and local communities are also supporting the efforts to create a smoke-free society.

74. Supporting National Health Goals
Laws restrict where people may smoke, as well as who can buy tobacco products.

75. Supporting National Health Goals
Laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors have been enacted.
Some states have successfully sued tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses.
Community activities that promote a healthy lifestyle provide everyone with the opportunity to practice healthful behaviors.

76. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is environmental tobacco smoke, and what chemical does it contain?
Air that has been contaminated with tobacco smoke; mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke contain more than 4,000 chemicals.

77. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List three ways that ETS affects children.
Sample answer: It increases a child’s risk of ear infections, respiratory problems, and sore throats.

78. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are two public policies aimed at reducing ETS?
Sample answer: Prohibiting smoking in public places and banning smoking on flights

79. Day 4
Review!

80. Day 5
Test!