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Tobacco

Tobacco. Do you know?. What is the legal age for tobacco/cigarette purchases in California? Answer: 21 years old True or False: Nicotine is not addictive. Answer: False. What is it?.

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Tobacco

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  1. Tobacco

  2. Do you know? • What is the legal age for tobacco/cigarette purchases in California? • Answer: 21 years old • True or False: Nicotine is not addictive. • Answer: False

  3. What is it? • Tobacco– a crop that is used to make cigarettes because of its psychoactive ingredient, nicotine, which is a highly addictive, nervous system stimulant. • Tobacco can be rolled and smoked as cigarettes & cigars or can be chewed a.k.asnuff (placed between the gum and lip) • Nicotine is the most addictive of all drugs. It stimulates the same area of the brain as cocaine and heroin, and tolerance develops faster. • What does it mean when you become tolerant to a drug?

  4. What makes up a cigarette? There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer and many others are toxic.

  5. Effects of Tobacco • Cancer – cancer of the throat, mouth, lungs, esophagus, and others. • Emphysema – lung condition causing shortness of breath; air sacs in the lungs get damaged causing them to weaken and rupture • Chronic bronchitis • COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (progressive lung disease) • Lung inflammation • Interstitial lung disease • Other effects such as stained teeth, hairy tongue, bad breath, wrinkles, stomas, diminished taste & smell, etc.

  6. The Lungs When a cigarette is burning, the chemicals start to melt together to form a tar. This tar is very sticky and it coats the lungs like syrup making it hard to breathe.

  7. Real life effects https://youtu.be/6aA2vwA6TmE - Debi Austin had to have her larynx removed due to cancer from smoking thus leaving her with a stoma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PzAchiPlvA – Debi Austin’s story https://youtu.be/Yb0zDUzSktY - Christine diagnosed with oral cancer in her early 40’s; she lost some teeth and had to have half of her jaw removed. “Straw Activity”

  8. Vaping Juuls, E-cigs, Hookah, Vape sticks, Vape pens

  9. Do you know? • What is the legal age for purchasing e-cigarettes in California? (also known as juuls, vapes) • Answer: 21 years old • True or False: If you vape, you are less likely to start smoking cigarettes. • Answer: False • True or False: One juul pod has the same amount of nicotine as 20 cigarettes. • Answer: True

  10. What is it? • Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol produced by an e-cigarette or similar device. • The aerosol is produced rather than tobacco smoke BUT the aerosol consists of fine particles that contain varying amounts of toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer, respiratory & heart disease. • Vaping pods contain a high amount of nicotine. One juul pods nicotine amount is equivalent to a full pack of cigarettes. (20)

  11. Is “Juuling” safe? • https://youtu.be/oTi3WJojgxk

  12. Vaping Devices

  13. How are they made?

  14. Effects of Vaping • Research indicates vaping can lead to damage to brain, heart, and lungs; development of cancerous tumors; harm to unborn children in pregnant women. • They contain high amounts of nicotine which is extremely addictive. • They DO NOT help people quit smoking. Studies show the opposite because of the need for the amount of nicotine making it harder to quit their addiction. • Nicotine can affect brain development in young people interfering with cognitive functioning, and increase risk of various mental and physical health problems later in life. • Not FDA approved so companies are not set to the safety standards by the US food and drug administration.

  15. Effects of Vaping

  16. Fun Facts • Vaping & smoking do not reduce stress, nicotine can actually make the stress you already feel worse. • In large amounts, nicotine is a poison that can cause nausea, vomiting, and rapid breathing. • E-cigarettes create many of the same cancer causing chemicals that are in cigarettes. • 1 out of every 5 deaths are the result of cigarette smoking. • Young teens who use e-cigarettes may be more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future.

  17. Quit it! • For free help visit smokefree.gov • Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW • Teen.smokefree.gov • Talk to someone you trust

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