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SMOKING BAN

SMOKING BAN. Rachel Gwaro CAS 100A. Let’s Support the Smoking B an. What is smoking ban? What is second hand smoke? Why must we support smoking ban? The Effects of Second Hand Smoke Health Hazardous Cigarette Contents How serious is second hand smoke and what can we do?.

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SMOKING BAN

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  1. SMOKING BAN Rachel Gwaro CAS 100A

  2. Let’s Support the Smoking Ban What is smoking ban? What is second hand smoke? Why must we support smoking ban? The Effects of Second Hand Smoke Health Hazardous Cigarette Contents How serious is second hand smoke and what can we do?

  3. Definition of Smoking Ban • Designated smoking areas at the work place. • The prohibition of smoking cigarettes inside home or building premises where children and non smoking individuals could possibly inhale the smoke unvoluntarily.

  4. Secondhand Smoke • A.K.A. Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) • Mixture of smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar & the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. • Involuntarily inhaled by non-smokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished.

  5. My Stance • I am for the smoking ban 100%

  6. Why must we support smoking ban? It’s EVERYBODYS air!!

  7. Contents of a Cigarette • Contain over 4,000 chemicals • 43 known carcinogenic compounds & 400 other toxins also known as additives. • Ammonia • Cyanide • Carbon Monoxide • Cadmium: Linked to lung and prostate cancer • Formaldehyde: Linked to lung cancer • Benzene: Linked to leukemia • Arsenic • Tar • Nicotine • Urea

  8. Why must we support smoking ban?

  9. Cigarette: Harmful Not Only To Smokers • Cigarette smoking is our nations #1 cause of • preventable death. • Every eight seconds, one dies from tobacco use. • States spend $78.1 millions on tobacco prevention • programs. (2008) Healthy Lung • Smokers Lung- 1 pack a day for 20 years.

  10. Anti-Smoking AD- Secondhand Smoke

  11. Many children, men and women are affected by second hand smoke From 2000-2004 at least 443,000 people in the U.S. died prematurely each year as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke up from 438,000 deaths in 1997-2001. The American Lung Association

  12. Extent of Secondhand Smoke 21 million children live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis. Causes just under 50,000 deaths in adult non- smokers in the U.S. each year. 3,400 from lung cancer 22,700-69,600 from heart disease. American Lung Association.

  13. Cigarette Smoking Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YjrkBYDDQM&feature=related

  14. Why must we care? Causes diseases and premature death in children and adults who don’t smoke. Secondhand smoke spread hundreds of carcinogenic chemicals such as vinyl chloride & hydrogen cyanide.

  15. 3 Most Harmful Contents Nicotine-drug in tobacco leaves. Can be smoked, chewed, or sniffed. Carbon Monoxide-Colorless, odorless gas. Tar-Rests in lungs. What’s in a cigarette?

  16. Secondhand Smoke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-ZEOiYPgE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsLn4cZmZ4

  17. States With AL LA OR AK ME RI AZ MD SD AR MA TN CA MN UT CO MT VT CT NV WA DE NH WI D.C. NJ PA FL NM GA NY HI ND ID OH IL OK States Without IN IA KY MI MS MO NE NC SC TX VA WV WY SMOKING BAN

  18. Bibliography The Fight Against Big Tobacco, Mark Wolfson, 2001 Smoking Bans, David L. Hudson Jr. 2004 Smoking Who Has the Right, Jeffrey A. Schaler & Magda e. Schaler. 1998 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4559 http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422 http://www.healthwellnc.com/TRUstories/TerrieText.html http://www.healthwellnc.com/trustories/default.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsLn4cZmZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRzypVmfJM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdvlpXjnM8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl81Pq4aOOo&feature=related

  19. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

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