Tobacco

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Tobacco
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QUIZ

• Rank the following tobacco products according to
  their danger (1 being most dangerous, 4 being
  least dangerous).
• Smokeless Tobacco (chew)
• Cigarettes
• Cigar
• Hookah
• ANSWER
• There IS no order- theyre ALL DANGEROUS!

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Did you know?

• 23 of high school students in the United States
  are current cigarette smokers
• Each day in the United States, approximately
  6,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 17
  years initiate cigarette smoking, and an
  estimated 1,710 young people become daily
  cigarette smokers.

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The Reality

• 70 of teen smokers say they wish they had never
  started.
• 95 of all teenage smokers think they will have
  quit within five years, but only 25 succeeded,
  eight years later.

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Why is tobacco so bad?

• Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical
  compounds including
• Cyanide, Formaldehyde, and Lead
• At least 40 chemicals in cigarettes are
  carcinogens chemicals that cause cancer!
• Also contains TAR, which coats the airways
• Chewing tobacco and other tobacco products
  contain the same deadly chemicals and nicotine as
  cigarettes

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Harmful Results

• Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body
  causing many diseases
• Cigarette smoking accounts for an estimated
  438,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths,
  each year in the United States.
• More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use
  than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use,
  alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides,
  and murders combined
• Smoking is a LEGAL KILLER!

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Secondhand Smoke

• Secondhand smoke is composed of sidestream smoke
  (the smoke released from the tip) and exhaled
  mainstream smoke (the smoke exhaled by the
  smoker).
• The combination of sidestream and mainstream is
  called Environmental Tobacco Smoke, the true name
  for secondhand smoke.
• Second hand smoke causes heart disease, lung
  disease, and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
  and KILLS 3,000 innocent each year.

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Financial Cost of Smoking

• An average pack of cigarettes 5.00
• A week of cigarettes would be 35.00
• A year of cigarettes would be 1,820 which is
  7,300 cigarettes!
• What things do you think are a better purchase
  than cigarettes? Why?
• Write what you can buy for 1,825?
• 18,250? 109,500?

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Say No!

• Practice those REFUSAL skills!
• Why is it good to say no? By not smoking, you
  have these great benefits
• Fewer colds, sore throats, asthma attacks
• Less likely to have stained teeth, bad breath
• You can taste and smell
• You wont smell like smoke all the time!
• Wont expose loved ones to cigarette smoke