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Understanding Tobacco: Effects, Risks, and Addiction

Explore the harmful effects of tobacco on the body, including nicotine addiction and health risks like heart disease and cancer. Learn about the different forms of tobacco, secondhand smoke dangers, and strategies for quitting. Discover how media influences tobacco use decisions and the impact of peer pressure.

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Understanding Tobacco: Effects, Risks, and Addiction

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  1. January 17, 2018 • Do Now: Come up with 2 review questions AND answers. • Obj: LWDAT review for the body systems test. • Body Systems Test “C” day, Jan. 25th

  2. February 8, 2018 • Do Now: How can tobacco and other drugs affect a person’s body? • Obj: LWDAT learn about what tobacco is and how it affects a person’s body

  3. Tobacco

  4. Open your books to Chapter 9 Lesson 1 and read. Take notes on the important terms and key concepts from the reading. • By the end you should be able to tell me what are the three substances in tobacco. • How does tobacco harm the body • What are the different forms of tobacco

  5. February 15, 2018 • Do Now: What makes secondhand smoke dangerous? Explain • Obj: LWDAT understand the choices a tobacco user has to help them quit and the dangers of secondhand smoke.

  6. Discuss quietly with your neighbor the answers to: • What are the 3 substances in tobacco. • How does tobacco harm the body? • What are the different forms of tobacco? • What common answers did you come up with

  7. Dangerous substances in Tobacco • Nicotine: drug that speeds up the heartbeat and CNS, it narrows blood vessels to and from the heart • Carbon Monoxide: poisonous, odorless gas (prevents RBC from carrying enough oxygen) • Tar: thick, oily, dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns

  8. Health Risk • Over time tobacco use is linked to heart disease, lung disease, and cancer • Emphysema: the alveoli in the lungs loose their elasticity • Reduces the amount of oxygen that gets passed from the lungs into the blood • Addiction: the body’s physical or mental need for a drug • Begin to need the substance to function “normally”

  9. February 20, 2018 • Do Now: Why do you think they raised the smoking age in NJ to 21? Is this a good age, why or why not? • Obj: LWDAT understand the choices a tobacco user has to help them quit and the dangers of secondhand smoke.

  10. Health Risk • Brain: can lead to addiction • Mouth, Teeth and Throat: bad breathe, stained teeth, weakens the enamel of the teeth, mouth and throat cancers • Lungs: coats the inside of the lungs and prevents them from working well and lung cancer. • Heart: increased heart rate and narrow blood vessels which makes the heart work harder, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes

  11. Forms of Tobacco • Smoked Tobacco • Cigarettes • Cigars • Pipes • Bidis: hand-rolled flavored cigarettes • Smokeless Tobacco • Snuff: Finely ground tobacco that is inhaled or held in the mouth or cheeks • Dip: moistened version of snuff • Chew: not ground must manually be chewed to release the flavor and nicotine

  12. Teens and Tobacco • According to the CDC and other similar organizations every day 4000 young people try their first cigarette • Reasons: • Smoking makes them look cool • (Truth: stains teeth, bad breathe & wrinkled skin) • Tobacco makes teens more accepted with peers • (Truth: 70-80% teens never try tobacco) • Using tobacco makes you more grown-up • (Truth: more adults are quitting) • Tobacco won’t hurt your health for years • (Truth: some effects begin the first time you use tobacco)

  13. Negative Influences • Negative Peer Pressure: pressure you feel to go along with the harmful behaviors or beliefs or your peers • Friends and family use of tobacco • Media: newspaper, magazines, radio, tv and the internet • Few years ago study was done that showed • tobacco was used in more than ¾ of movies intended for young viewers • 1/3 of pop song glamorized tobacco use • Tobacco Advertising: • On average the tobacco industry spends $10 billion a year to advertise its products

  14. February 27, 2018 • Do Now: List 5 ways that smoking harms your body. • Obj: LWDAT learn about the different forms of tobacco, how media and others influence someone’s decision to smoke and the repercussions of smoking.

  15. Refusal Skills • Be prepared with some reasons for saying no to tobacco • Practice saying no in an assertive style • Speak in a firm voice

  16. Quitting • Cold Turkey Method: stopping the use of all tobacco products • Very difficult for most people • Nicotine Replacement Therapies: products used to help a person quit smoking • Gums, patches, e-cigarettes • Support Groups

  17. Secondhand smoke • Secondhand smoke: mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers • Passive smokers: nonsmokers who breathe in secondhand smoke

  18. February 28, 2018 • Do Now: What problems does Deb (Tobacco Horror Picture Show) have? • Obj: LWDAT learn about the different forms of tobacco, how media and others influence someone’s decision to smoke and the repercussions of smoking.

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