1. What’s in a Cigarette?

2. We know

3. What’s really in them
Cigarettes are made from tobacco, a tall leafy plant that grown almost everywhere in the world
Tobacco plants contains a drug called nicotine
Nicotine is a deadly poison and it can kill a person in less than an hour if even a small amount is injected into your blood stream.

4. Tobacco Smoke
Contains very tiny amounts of nicotine that aren’t deadly, but are still very bad for your health.
Tobacco smoke also contains over 4,000 chemicals,
Many of them are known to cause cancer

6. How does smoking hurt you?
Hurts your lungs
Damages your lungs natural cleaning and repair system.
Traps cancer-causing chemicals in your lungs
Permanently damages the alveoli in your lungs making it hard to breathe

7. Your lungs

8. How you get addicted
Nicotine is one of the main ingredients in tobacco
It speeds up the brain and central nervous system
Triggers the release of a chemical in your brain (dopamine) that boosts your mood and makes you feel calm

9. Addicted
Nicotine smoke is absorbed through the skin lining of the mouth and nose
Nicotine level in your blood peaks within 10 second of inhaling

10. Your Job
Create a poster showing how silly it is to pick up a cigarette in the first place.
Your poster will comparing something fun, dangerous and somewhat safe to smoking
Examples

11. I would rather do something safe like………

12. Examples Wrestle Alligators Fight a UFC fighter Skydiving
Swim with Sharks
Face 100 mph slap shot with no equipment
Bungee Jump
Then smoke a Cigarette