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Harmful Effects of Tobacco

Harmful Effects of Tobacco. May 2014. Health Info Prepared by Public Health Vitalité Health Network November 2013. Harmful Tobacco Smoke And Tobacco Products. Harmful Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Products. Tobacco smoke contains:.

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Harmful Effects of Tobacco

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  1. Harmful Effects of Tobacco May 2014

  2. Health Info Prepared byPublic HealthVitalité Health NetworkNovember 2013

  3. Harmful Tobacco Smoke And Tobacco Products

  4. Harmful Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Products Tobacco smoke contains: • More than 4,000 chemicals, including at least 70 that are known to cause cancer.

  5. Harmful Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Products What ingredient in tobacco is responsible for causing dependency? • Nicotine produces an enjoyable sensation in the brain by increasing dopamine production, which consequently leads to addiction and physical dependence

  6. Harmful Tobacco Smoke And Tobacco Products • Tar is produced when smoking cigarettes. It sticks inside your mouth and to the walls of your pharynx and lungs. • Tar is the main cause of throat and lung cancer

  7. Tar the roads, not your lungs • Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day for a year, will produce one cup of tar which will accumulate in your lungs. • Tar is also the substance responsible for the yellow stains on your fingers and on your teeth.

  8. Other Harmful Ingredients Found In Tobacco • Arsenic: found in rat poison. • Ammonia: an ingredient in window cleaner. • Carbon monoxide: one of the gases produced by car exhaust fumes

  9. Everyone has a right to tobacco free air !

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