Tobacco

1. Dominic Caruso 10th Grade Health Tobacco Just Say NO!

2. What is Tobacco? • Green, leafy plant that is grown in warm climates. • The psychoactive ingredient is nicotine a stimulant, but more than 4,000 other chemicals (2,000 of which are known to be poisonous) are present in cigarettes.

3. After • After it is picked, it is dried, ground up, and used in different ways

4. Products Products Products

5. Nicotine • Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants which constitutes approximately 0.6–3.0% of dry weight of tobacco. • Widely used as an insecticide in the past • Addiction

6. Nicotine • Nicotine, produces all the good feelings that draw people back for another cigarette or plug of tobacco

8. Cigarettes

9. Cigarette-10 Ingredients • Ammonia -- used to increase the absorption rate of nicotine. It's also used to clean your toilet • Arsenic -- used as a pesticide on tobacco plants. Rats Poison. • Cadmium -- a metallic compound that tobacco collects from acidic soil. Battery Acid.

10. 4 5 • Formaldehyde -- a byproduct of cigarette smoke, this colorless gas is commonly used to preserve dead bodies for burial. • Acetone -- another byproduct from burning a cigarette. It's also found in nail polish remover and, like ammonia, is used to clean toilets.

11. 6 7 • Butane -- this byproduct is also used to help you light your cigarette, in the form of lighter fluid. • Propylene Glycol -- added to cigarettes to keep tobacco from drying out. • Speeds up the delivery of nicotine to the brain.

12. 8…9 10 • Turpentine -- used to flavor menthol cigarettes. • This oil also can be used to thin paint and strip varnish from wood. • Benzene -- another byproduct from burning a cigarette. • You can find benzene in pesticides and gasoline. • Lead and Nickel -- Yes, these are metals. Need we say more?

13. Bring on the Statistics • Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths • About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily – or 10 million every minute • Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death

14. Stats on Stats on Stats • Every cigarette smoked cuts at least 5 minutes of life on average – about the time taken to smoke it • At least a quarter of all deaths from heart diseases and about three-quarters of world’s chronic bronchitis are related to smoking

15. Smokeless Tobacco • Smokeless tobacco is tobacco that is not burned. • Chewing tobacco • Oral tobacco, • Spit or spitting tobacco • Dip, • Chew, • Snuff

16. At least 28 chemicals in smokeless tobacco have been found to cause cancer. • Smokeless tobacco causes oral cancer, esophageal cancer, and pancreatic cancer. • This could get ugly

18. Quitting Smoking Not Easy • Cold Turkey • Nicotine Patch-is a transversal patch that releases nicotine into the body through the skin. • Replacing smoking with something else(Gum)

19. Peer Pressure • Pressureis the feeling that you are being pushed toward making a certain choice—good or bad. • A peer is someone in your own age group. • Peer pressure is—you guessed it—the feeling that someone your own age is pushing you toward making a certain choice, good or bad.

20. Need Help? • Just ask • Family • Friends • Teachers • Counselors • Just talk about it! Just ASK!!!!! Need More Help?....... Above The Influence