Smoking Tobacco

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Smoking Tobacco

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Chemicals found in Smoking tobacco

• There are over a 1,000 different types of harmful
  chemicals
• carcinogen- chemicals known to cause cancer
• tar- sticky, thick substance formed when tobacco
  is burned
• carbon monoxide- odorless, tasteless gas that
  interferes with the ability of blood to carry
  oxygen

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Causes

• Cancer
• Respiratory Diseases
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  (COPD)interferes with breathing
• Chronic bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Aortic aneurysmbulging weakening area around the
  aorta
• Aneurysmresult of weakening in an artery wall

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Types of Smoke

• Second hand smokeside stream or exhaled smoke
• Side stream smokesmoke that enters the air from
  a pipe, cigarette, or cigar
• Mainstream smokesmoke that is inhaled into the
  smokers mouth and lungs