Transcript Tobacco PowerPoint tobacco_the_truth_2

Tobacco – The Truth!
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Consequences of Smoking:
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On your Task Sheet draw a smoker:
– What does that person look like?
• Inside and outside
– Label specific characteristics they
possess
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Tobacco: What is it?
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Tall, leafy plant
Leaves can be burned
and inhaled: cigarettes,
cigars, pipes, smoke, etc
Can be absorbed through
the mouth: chew
Nicotine is the drug in
tobacco
Nicotine is a powerful
central nervous system
stimulant
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Why is Tobacco ADDICTIVE?
Physical Addiction:
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Alters brain functioning
– Most people smoke compulsively; few people can
smoke occasionally.
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Nicotine is a ‘reinforcing’ drug
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Many smokers continue to smoke in order to avoid
painful withdrawal symptoms.
Dangerous effects not obvious in the beginning.
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Why is Tobacco ADDICTIVE?
Psychosocial addiction:
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Smoking gives pleasure
– Tactile & oral
– A “quick fix” for anxiety, anger, stress
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Social pressure
– First experience with tobacco usually is not pleasant.
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Fewer external pressures to quit than with other
drug addictions.
– No immediate danger of losing their jobs or families
due to their addiction.
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What is in a Cigarette “Cancer
Stick”……
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Cigarette
Ingredients
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Cigarette Ingredients…
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4000+ Chemicals
43 Carcinogens
Tar, Ammonia, Caffeine, Chocolate, Ethyl Alcohol,
Menthol, Cyanide, Benzene, Formaldehyde,
Arsenic – rat poison
Lead – once used in paint
Polonium 210 – found in nuclear waste
Urea – found in urine
Added for you...
Poisons are added for flavor……………
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Cigarette Ingredients:
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Consequences of Smoking
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Share you task sheet drawings
– How is a smoker effected internally?
– How is a smoker effected externally?
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Health Effects…… CANCER
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Lung Cancer
– Smoking causes 90% of
lung cancer deaths in
women
– Smoking causes 80% of
lung cancer deaths in
men
– Risk of lung cancer 23
times higher among men
who smoke cigarettes,
and 13 times higher
among women who
smoke
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Cancer of all body
parts
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Health Effects ... HEART DISEASE
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Coronary heart disease
– Cigarette smokers are
2–4 times more likely to
develop coronary heart
disease than
nonsmokers.
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Smoking doubles a
person’s risk for stroke.
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Smoking causes
reduced circulation;
narrows blood vessels.
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More Health Effects…..
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About 90% of all deaths from chronic
obstructive lung diseases are attributable to
cigarette smoking.
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Cigarette smoking has many adverse
reproductive and early childhood effects.
– Increased risk for infertility, preterm delivery, stillbirth, low
birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
How important is life...
Ask yourself this, “Do you need to breath?” if you said, “NO”,
then go for it, smoke, smoke a ton!
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More Health Effects …
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Secondhand smoke
– Each hour a non-smoker is around a
smoker the non-smoker receives the same
negative effects of smoking one cigarette.
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Extra Benefits of Smoking……
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Wrinkles
 Premature aging
 Yellow teeth
 Gum disease
 Bad breathe
 Smelly clothes
 Loss of taste & smell
WOW…..how lucky!
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Statistics
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3,000 American kids become regular smokers a
day
438,000 Americans die each year from cigarettes
160,000 Americans get lung cancer from
cigarettes
10 times greater to get lung cancer than nonsmoker
Twice as likely to develop heart disease
1/5 deaths in this country is caused from tobacco
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In Washington State …
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Adult smoking rate has dropped to a
new low
– Dropped 26% since 1999
16.5% of adult residents smoke (2007)
 6th lowest smoking rate among all states
 20% of 12th graders smoke
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– If a person does not try tobacco before the
age of 18 it is unlikely they will ever
become a user
Emphysema
Destroys the air sacs of the lungs
(alveoli)
 Alveoli lose elasticity and absorb less
oxygen
 More breaths needed to get oxygen
 People with emphysema use 80% of
their energy just to breathe in
comparison to the normal 5%.
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EMPHYSEMA VIDEO
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Video Reflection Questions…
1. What did you learn from this movie?
2. Why is this information important?
3. What will you do with this learned
information?
4. What is your emotional response to this
story?
5. Do you think this story pains an accurate
picture of what it’s like to suffer from
emphysema? Explain your answer.
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Straw Breathing Activity …
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Get an idea of how difficult your life
would be if you had emphysema!
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EXTRA CREDIT!!!
INTERVIEW
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Now that you know the
facts, do you still
think tobacco
products are ok?????
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