TOBACCO

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TOBACCO
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Six types of tobacco products

• Cigarettes
• Chew
• Snuff
• Pipe
• Cigars
• Clove/herbal Cigarettes

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Nicotine

• Addictive ingredient in tobacco
• Low doses-mild stimulant and muscle relaxant
• Higher doses-powerful nerve poison
• 60 mg of nicotine are enough to kill most people.
  1 or 2 mg are inhaled when a cigarette is smoked.

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TAR

• Thick, black substance in tobacco smoke.
• Coats inside of airways
• Contains many carcinogens

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Chemicals

• 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke
• 40 of the chemicals are carcinogens (chemical
  agents that cause cancer)

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Six of the dangerous chemicals found in tobacco
smoke

• Cyanide-poisonous gas used to develop photographs
• Formaldehyde-substance used to preserve
  laboratory animals and as embalming fluid
• Lead-dangerous metal

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Continued

• Vinyl chloride-flammable gas used to make plastic
  products
• Carbon monoxide-gas that blocks oxygen from
  getting into the bloodstream
• Ammonia-chemical found in bathroom cleaners

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Snuff
• Chewing tobacco
• They contain nicotine, tar, arsenic, nickel,
  benzopyrene, polonium
• They lead to mouth sores, mouth cancer

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Leukoplakia
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Black Hairy Tongue
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Short term effects(1 second for inhaled nicotine
to get into the bloodstream)

• Stimulates brain reward system
• Increases heart rate and blood pressure
• Increases breathing rate
• Increases blood sugar levels
• Stimulates the vomit reflex

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Long term effects

• 1. Addiction-changes the way the brain reward
  system functions
• 2. Bronchitis-paralyzes then kills cilia so mucus
  builds up in lungs
• 3. Emphysema-air cannot move in and out of the
  lungs because alveoli are damaged

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4. Heart and Artery Disease

• Nicotine increases heart rate, narrows blood
  vessels and eventually causes arteries to become
  hardened and clogged
• Nearly 170,000 die yearly

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Healthy Unhealthy
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5. Cancer

• Types that can be caused from tobacco Lung,
  Pancreas, Bladder, Cervix, Kidney, Oral, and
  Throat
• Lung cancer often spreads to other parts of the
  body leading cancer killer

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6. Immune System Suppression

• Reduces the activity of immune system
• Leads to susceptibility to disease

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7. Other

• Excess stomach acid build up
• Damage to stomach and small intestines
• Stains on fingers and teeth
• Mouth sores
• Odor and tar film on clothes
• Dulls senses of smell and taste

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Effects of Smoke on Nonsmokers

• Sidestream smoke - smoke that escapes from the
  tip of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe
• Mainstream smoke - smoke that is inhaled through
  a tobacco product and exhaled by a tobacco smoker
• Environmental tobacco smoke (second hand smoke) -
  both of the above

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Dangers of Second hand smoke

• Lung cancer-for every 8 smokers killed by their
  own smoking, 1 non-smoker is killed by exposure
• Headaches, nausea, dizziness, reduced heart
  functions, asthma

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Smoking during Pregnancy

• Chemicals pass through placenta to fetus and
  affect fetus the same way they affect the mother
• Can lead to miscarriage, premature birth, low
  birth weight
• Baby at risk for SIDS
• Can affect fetus brain development
• May be addicted to nicotine at birth

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Tobacco and Family

• Over 1,500 per year for buying tobacco products
• Lost wages due to illness
• Medical bills
• Funeral costs (20 of premature deaths in the US
  are caused by tobacco use

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Tobacco and Society

• Estimated 138 billion per year (related to
  medical care that cannot be paid)
• Insurance costs go up
• Accidental fires

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Law

• Cannot sell to anyone under 18