The Truth About Tobacco: A Guide to Harmful Effects and Quitting

2. What’s in a Cigarette? Cigarettes contain toxic ingredients & chemicals like: • Acetone (found in nail polish remover) • Butane (found in lighter fluid) • Lead (found in batteries) • Tar (used to pave roads) • Ammonia (found in toilet cleaner) • Nicotine (a very addictive drug)

3. How Tobacco Affects the Body Hmm..? • What happens to you and your body when you use tobacco even for a short time?

4. Smelly Clothes & Hair Bad Breath

5. Yellow Teeth and Fingers Coughing/Hacking Hurling/Phlegm

6. Difficulty running and breathing Affects your taste and smell

7. Smokeless tobacco is just as harmful as cigarettes The chemicals in smokeless tobacco destroy cells and tissues, which leads to mouth sores. . .

8. Secondhand Smoke • Exposure to secondhand smoke can cause children to develop •  asthma, • bronchitis, • pneumonia, • respiratory infections  ear infections • What you inhale from other people’s smoke: •  More than 4,000 • chemicals • More than 200 • poisons • More than 50 • carcinogens

9. How Tobacco Affects the Body Healthy Lung Smoke-damaged Lung

10. How Tobacco Affects the Body Did NOT Smoke Did Smoke

11. Addiction How Tobacco Affects the Body Wrinkles Cataracts Mouth Cancers Skin Damage Throat Cancer Psoriasis Heart Disease Lung Disease Stomach Ulcers

12. Straw Breathing Activity Any type of smoking affects your breathing. To see how your lungs feel when you smoke, place a straw in your mouth, hold your nose, breathe only through the straw, and run in place for one minute. Smokers run slower and can’t run as far.

13. Reasons People Use Tobacco-Peer Pressure Some people say they start using tobacco because of their friends or peer pressure. • You can say “NO” to peer pressure! How??? . . . • Be direct and confident • Say “No, thank you” • Use humor • Switch the topic

14. Reasons People Use Tobacco--Image • Teens start using tobacco because they THINK it: • is glamorous • makes them look older • is cool • will make them popular

15. Reasons People Use Tobacco--Relaxation • Tobacco/Nicotine is actually a stimulant. • It speeds up the heart rate • It increases blood pressure • Revs up the body

16. Reasons People Use Tobacco--Addiction Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances know to man! Once people start, it’s very hard to quit!

17. Marketing Tobacco-The Power of Advertising In just one hour — the time it takes to present Tar Wars to your classroom— the tobacco industry will spend more than $1 million on advertising created to get people to start using their products. Tobacco companies almost always depict tobacco users as young, attractive, and popular.

18. Marketing-Movies, Television & The Internet 82% of PG-13 rated movies show tobacco use. TV shows do it too! Cruela DeVille in 101 Dalmations The Hobbit Don’t be fooled…“Cheap” “Tax Free” “Free Shipping” does not make tobacco any less DEADLY. It is also ILLEGAL to buy tobacco if you are under 18! Ads, movies and television depict smoking as a glamorous and enjoyable act with no ill effects.

19. Marketing-Flavored Tobacco Products Tobacco companies have introduced products that are packaged to look and taste like candies, mints, and gum to entice young buyers. Tobacco/Nicotine products in any shape or flavor are bad for your health. .

20. Marketing-Electronic Cigarettes (E-Cig/Vaping Tobacco companies have developed nicotine products that emit aerosol vapor instead of smoke. Tobacco companies try to fool you into thinking these products are somehow better than smoking regular cigarettes. DON’T BE FOOLED—DON’T GET HOOKED

21. Marketing-- Hookahs A hookah is a water pipe used to smoke tobacco. Up to 200 times the amount of smoke inhaled = more nicotine. Shared mouthpieces risk getting colds, the flu, oral herpes, and other illnesses.

22. Cost of Tobacco Use The cost of a pack of cigarettes ranges from $4.00 to $11.00 The average cost in Idaho is $6.00 Do the math!!!

23. Cost of Tobacco Use $6 per pack x 7 days = $42/week $42 per week x 4 weeks = $168/month $168 per month x 12 months = $2,016/year $2,016 per year x 10 years = $20,160 • Wow! That’s a lot of money!

24. What else could you buy with this money?

25. Presentation Summary • What did you learn today? • Now, let’s brainstorm some ideas for a positive message for the • poster contest.

26. Poster Contest • Posters should: • Reinforce the Tar • Wars tobacco-free • message • Emphasize the • positive aspects of • being tobacco-free • Be colorful and • neat • Use correct • grammar and • punctuation PRIZES!!!!! FIRST PLACE $500 Cash Prize for the student $500 Cash Prize for the teacher/school Poster featured in the Tar Wars Calendar 2ND-12TH PLACES $100 for the students $150 for the teachers/schools Posters featured in the Tar Wars Calendar ALL ENTRANTS (one per school) Personalized T-shirt and Certificate Madalyn Schutte 2012 Idaho Tar Wars Poster Contest

27. Poster Contest • Posters should: • Reinforce the Tar • Wars tobacco-free • message • Emphasize the • positive aspects of • being tobacco-free • Be colorful and • neat • Use correct • grammar and • punctuation Madalyn Schutte 2012 Idaho Tar Wars Poster Contest

28. Thank You for participating in Tar Wars is supported in part by grants from the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and the Idaho Millennium Fund.