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Tobacco

Tobacco. If it is so bad for you, why do people use it?. Tobacco Use - A High-Risk Behavior. E.Q. Why is it so important to know the dangers and risks of tobacco ? What is you opinion? Choose one of the following I think it is okay to smoke or use tobacco products .

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Tobacco

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  1. Tobacco If it is so bad for you, why do people use it?

  2. Tobacco Use - A High-Risk Behavior • E.Q. Why is it so important to know the dangers and risks of tobacco? • What is you opinion? Choose one of the following • I think it is okay to smoke or use tobacco products. • I do not think it is okay to smoke or use tobacco products.

  3. Lesson ObjectivesStudents will be able to. . . • State reasons that some teens smoke. • Explain how tobacco use is directly linked to respiratory and circulatory diseases, as well as a variety of other health-related problems.

  4. Health Terms to Know • Addiction • Nicotine • Stimulant • Tar • Carcinogens • Carbon monoxide • Smokeless tobacco

  5. Why Young People Start Smoking • Consider these facts: • Everyday in the U.S. 6,000 teens light up their first cigarette • Approx nine in ten adult smokers began smoking as teens • 1/3 of them will eventually die from a smoke-related cause. • 2.6 million packs of cigarettes are sold illegally to minors everyday. • Reasons why: • Uncomfortable in social situations and they some how believe that a cigarette will relieve this problem. • Peer pressure • Believe that only bad effects will happen over years of smoking. • Believe they can drop the habit anytime. • Viewed smoking as a passing habit

  6. Addiction • Addiction is the physiological or psychological dependence on a substance or activity.

  7. What is in cigarettes? • 43 chemicals known to cause cancer • Cyanide • Formaldehyde – preserve dead things • Arsenic – rat poison • Nicotine is the addictive drug that is in cigarettes also a stimulant • Raises blood pressure and increases heart rate. • Stimulant is a drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart and other organs.

  8. What is in cigarettes? (cont.) • Tar is the thick sticky dark fluid produced when tobacco burns • Destroy and paralyze cilia. • Carcinogens are cancer causing substances • Carbon Monoxide is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas in cigarette smoke that passes through the lungs and into the blood. • Unites with the hemoglobin in the blood

  9. Other Forms of Tobacco • Smoking pipes or cigars still cause major health risks • Same risks occur as with both smoking cigarettes and using smokeless tobacco.

  10. Specialty Cigarettes • Prepared with tobacco and other ingredients. • Made with strong tobacco and contain spices that make them taste and smell sweet. • Contain more cancer-causing tars than cigarettes • Cloves • Linked to lung problems • May have 2 times the amount of tar and nicotine

  11. Smokeless Tobacco • This is tobacco that is sniffed through the nose or chewed. • 12 million Americans • Many believe it is less harmful than cigarettes. • Can you think of a professional athlete the uses smokeless tobacco? • Possible Damages: • mouth sores • cancer of the mouth and throat • damage teeth and gums • Damage digestive system.

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