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Why is Smoking Bad for You?

Why is Smoking Bad for You?. How Does it Cause Heart Disease and Cancer?. What is Smoking?. Inhaling tobacco smoke into lungs through a pipe, cigar, or cigarette, and exhaling through nose or mouth. The Origin of Smoking. First began when Native Americans used Peace Pipes.

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Why is Smoking Bad for You?

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  1. Why is Smoking Bad for You? How Does it Cause Heart Disease and Cancer?

  2. What is Smoking? • Inhaling tobacco smoke into lungs through a pipe, cigar, or cigarette, and exhaling through nose or mouth.

  3. The Origin of Smoking • First began when Native Americans used Peace Pipes. • Became popular in 1900s in U.S. • People didn’t know that smoking was harmful until 50 years ago.

  4. Why Do Smokers Start At Young Ages? • Curiosity • Weight loss • Peer pressure • Parents or relatives smoke • Ignorance

  5. How is Nicotine Harmful? • A chemical found in cigarettes • Extremely addictive • Alters neurotransmitter's ability to send messages to brain • Brain adjusts to nicotine level • When not smoking, it causes imbalance and anxiety

  6. How is Addiction Harmful? • Becomes a habit • Causes chemical imbalance in brain • Feeling of anxiety • Smoke more often, worsens health

  7. What Is In A Cigarette? • Ammonia • Benzene • Acetone • Tar • Formaldehyde • Nicotine • Carbon Monoxide • Arsenic • Hydrogen Cyanide

  8. Health Consequences (Short Term) • Yellowing of teeth • Gum decay • Eye/throat irritation • Nausea • Headache • Coughing

  9. Health Consequences (Long Term) • Respiratory infection • Blood clots • Lung disease • Heart disease • Stroke/paralysis • Cancer

  10. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Allows tar present in smoke to enter bloodstream

  11. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Tar clots arteries and main valves

  12. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Chemicals in smoke damage ventricles

  13. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Creates infection in blood cells

  14. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Heart must work harder to pump

  15. How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease? • Heart is weakened and failure is possible

  16. How Does Smoking Cause Cancer? • Harmful chemicals enter bloodstream

  17. How Does Smoking Cause Cancer? • Irregular cells appear in organs

  18. How Does Smoking Cause Cancer? • Cells multiply

  19. How Does Smoking Cause Cancer? • Create tumors (generally in lungs)

  20. How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease? • Tar inhaled, builds on lungs

  21. How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease? • Damages air sacs

  22. How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease? • Damages cilia

  23. How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease? • Airways tighten

  24. How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease? • Difficulty breathing

  25. What is Secondhand Smoke? • Smoke from a smoldering cigarette, cigar, etc. • More toxic chemicals than exhaled smoke • Causes nausea/headaches in nonsmokers • Causes lung cancer in 3000 nonsmokers each year

  26. Bibliography Author Unknown. “Chemicals in Cigarettes.” Harmful Chemicals in Cigarettes andTobacco Smoke. Sept. 29, 2003. 4/26/04. <http://www.quitsmokingstop.com/harmful- cigarettes.html> Author Unknown. “Health Effects of Smoking Among Young People.” June 15, 2003. Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS). 4/26/04. <http://www.cdc.gov/ tobacco/research_data/youth/stspta5.html>

  27. Bibliography Author Unknown. “Sports and the Arts Without Tobacco.” Health Hazards ofTobacco. December 16, 2003. 4/26/04. <http://www.who.in/archives/ntday96/pk 96_3.html> Glantz, Stanton A. “Smoking.” WorldBook Encyclopedia. Chicago: Scott Fetzer Company, 2003 ed. Levitsky, Michael G. “Emphysema.”WorldBook Encyclopedia. Chicago: Scott Fetzer Company, 2003 ed.

  28. About the Author My name is Caitlin Hines. I am 13 years old and I live in Winston Salem, NC. I enjoy playing the clarinet in band and dancing on the competition team at In Motion Dance Center.

  29. Smoking is an addictive, unhealthy habit, and the effects are irreversible. The best choice to make is to never start smoking.

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