Smoke Free Environments

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Smoke Free Environments
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What we will review---

• Tobacco Facts
• The Effects of Smoking on Your Health
• Second Hand Smoke

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• Tobacco Facts

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In Oregon, Percentage of Smokers by Ethnic Group
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Tobacco Facts

• Changes in Oregon Tobacco Use from 1996 to 2003
• Per capita cigarette consumption decreased 40
• 2 billion fewer cigarettes were sold in 2003
• The number of adults who smoked cigarettes
  decreased by 75,000
• Oregon Tobacco Facts, September 2004, Tobacco
  Prevention Education Program, Department of
  Human Services, www.healthoregon.org/tobacco

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Adult Cigarette Use in Oregon

• 500,000 Oregon adults smoke cigarettes
• This represents 21 of the adult population in
  Oregon
• That means that 79 of Oregon adults do not smoke

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Who are the smokers?

• 11 of people over age 65 smoke
• 20 of the people in the 45 to 64 year age group
  smoke
• 24 of people in the 25 to 44 year age group
  smoke
• 28 of people in the 18 to 24 year age group smoke

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Who are the non-smokers?

• 89 of people over age 65 do not smoke
• 80 of the people in the 45 to 64 year age group
  do not smoke
• 76 of people in the 25 to 44 year age group do
  not smoke
• 72 of people in the 18 to 24 year age group do
  not smoke

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The more money you have the less likely you are
to smoke
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The more education you have the less likely you
are to smoke
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Where you live in Oregon is an indication of
whether or not you smoke
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Tobacco Related Deaths and Economic Costs

• According to Oregon physicians, tobacco
  contributed to 7,016 deaths in 2002, (22.6) of
  all deaths.
• There are an estimated 800 deaths caused by
  second hand smoke annually.
• Tobacco use cost Oregonians approximately 1.8
  billion in 2000

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Number of Deaths-Selected Causes Oregon 2002
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Tobacco causes more than 5 times as many deaths
as motor vehicles, suicide, AIDS and homicide
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Underlying Cause of Tobacco-related Deaths, 2002
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• The effects of smoking
• on your health

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YUK!
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Lets Start with What a Cigarette Contains

• 4000 Chemicals
• 43 Cancer causing agents
• 500 Poisons Northwest Portland Area Indian
  Health Board, Tobacco 101 Presentation
• There is no filtering system, world wide that can
  filter out these harmful ingredients
  EconNorthwest report for the Kah-nee-ta Resort

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Heart Disease

• Smoking increases blood pressure
• Decreases exercise tolerance
• Increases the tendency for blood to clot
• Increases the risk of recurrent coronary heart
  disease after bypass surgery American Heart
  Association, http//www.americanheart.org/presente
  r.jhtml?identifier4545

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Lung Cancer

• Womens death rates due to lung cancer have risen
  600 since 1950
• About 90 of all lung cancer deaths are
  attributable to smoking Northwest Portland Area
  Indian Health Board Tobacco 101 Power Point
  Presentation

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What Lung Cancer Looks Like
Healthy lungs
Small cell cancer in Smokers lung
Cancerous tumor in the lung
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Respiratory Disease (The ability to breathe)

• Asthma attacks (Even smell of old cigarette smoke
  can trigger attack.) Northwest Portland Area
  Indian Health Board, Western Tobacco Prevention
  Project

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If you are diabetic..

• Smoking and Diabetes both reduce the amount of
  oxygen reaching your bodily tissues, resulting in
  poor circulation.
• Smoking raises your blood sugar level making it
  harder to control your diabetes.
• Of people with diabetes who need amputations, 95
  are smokers.

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Smoking Cervical Cancer

• Research shows that smokers infected with human
  papillomavirus have greater risk of developing
  invasive cervical cancer than nonsmokers with the
  virus.

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And your ability to have children
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• Second Hand Smoke

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What is Second Hand Smoke?

• There are two parts to Second Hand Smoke
• Side Stream Smoke
• (smoke coming from the
  burning end of the cigarette)
• Main Stream Smoke
• (smoke coming from the
  person smoking the cigarette)
• Northwest Portland Area Health Board-Western
  Tobacco Prevention Project
  /Tribal
  Tobacco Resource Guidebook

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Secondhand Smoke Exposure in the Workplace

• Over 95 of employees are covered by Oregons
  Workplace Smoking law, which prohibits smoking in
  most workplaces with the exception of bars, the
  bar part of restaurants, bowling centers, bingo
  halls, tobacco stores and designated hotel rooms.

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Employees and Smoking

• Waitresses have the highest lung cancer rates
  among working women and the highest death rates
  for lung cancer (4 times greater risk) and heart
  disease (2.5 times greater risk) of any
  female-dominated occupational group.
  www.workshifts.org, Siegel M., Involuntary
  smoking in the restaurant workplace a review of
  employee exposure and health effects. JAMA 270(4)
  490-493, 1993

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Employees and Smoking

• Bar and restaurant employees have triple the
  risk for lung cancer-50 higher than any other
  occupation, including firefighters and miners.
  www.workshifts.org, Siegel M., Involuntary
  smoking in the restaurant workplace a review of
  employee exposure and health effects. JAMA 270(4)
  490-493, 1993

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Employees and Smoking

• Bar and restaurant workers experience secondhand
  smoke at levels 4 to 8 times greater than that of
  an individual who lives with a smoker at home.
  www.workshifts.org, Hammond SK, et. al.,
  Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco
  smoke. JAMA, 274956-960, 1995

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Lets Stop and Look at Your Exposure to Second
Hand Smoke

• Have you ever worked in place where people smoked
  regularly?
• Do you live in a house where people smoke?
• Do you smoke?

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What about our children?

• One smoking parent increases chances of Sudden
  Infant Death Syndrome, asthma, bronchitis and
  pneumonia by 25 to 40 NPAIHB quoting National
  Cancer Institute, http//cancercontrol.cancer.gov/
  tcrb/monographs/10/m10_1.pdf and U.S. Dept of
  Health Human Services http//www.cdc.gov/tobacco
  /sgr/sgr_forwomen/index.htm. and Cook, D.G. and
  D.P. Strachan. Health Effects of Passive Smoking,
  Torax 54357-366. 1999.

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What about our new born children?

• Pregnant women exposed to 6 hours a day pass
  carcinogens to the blood of unborn
• 2 hours a day causes 2 times risk of low birth
  weight

• Miscarriage
• Prematurity
• Low birth weight
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

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What you can do.!

• If you smoke quit as soon as possible!
• Do not allow smoking inside your home or car
  protect others from Secondhand smoke.
• Get involved with tobacco awareness campaigns
  let others know about the risk!

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Thank you

• Native American Rehabilitation Association
• Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• For their assistance in the development of this
  presentation

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• Celeste Whitewolf, Director
• Native Peoples Circle of Hope
• (A coalition of Native cancer survivors and
  support groups.)
• 9770 SW Ventura Ct.
• Tigard, OR 97223
• [phone]
• npcoh_at_spiritone.com