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What’s in a Cigarette?. We know. What’s really in them. Cigarettes are made from tobacco, a tall leafy plant that grown almost everywhere in the world Tobacco plants contains a drug called nicotine
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What’s really in them • Cigarettes are made from tobacco, a tall leafy plant that grown almost everywhere in the world • Tobacco plants contains a drug called nicotine • Nicotine is a deadly poison and it can kill a person in less than an hour if even a small amount is injected into your blood stream.
Tobacco Smoke • Contains very tiny amounts of nicotine that aren’t deadly, but are still very bad for your health. • Tobacco smoke also contains over 4,000 chemicals, • Many of them are known to cause cancer
How does smoking hurt you? • Hurts your lungs • Damages your lungs natural cleaning and repair system. • Traps cancer-causing chemicals in your lungs • Permanently damages the alveoli in your lungs making it hard to breathe
How you get addicted • Nicotine is one of the main ingredients in tobacco • It speeds up the brain and central nervous system • Triggers the release of a chemical in your brain (dopamine) that boosts your mood and makes you feel calm
Addicted • Nicotine smoke is absorbed through the skin lining of the mouth and nose • Nicotine level in your blood peaks within 10 second of inhaling
Your Job • Create a poster showing how silly it is to pick up a cigarette in the first place. • Your poster will comparing something fun, dangerous and somewhat safe to smoking • Examples
Examples • Wrestle Alligators • Fight a UFC fighter • Skydiving • Swim with Sharks • Face 100 mph slap shot with no equipment • Bungee Jump Then smoke a Cigarette