Lesser-Known Effects Of Smoking

TOBACCO In what forms do people use tobacco? (click for answers) Snuff and chewing tobacco are forms of smokeless tobacco Tobacco is smoked in cigars , cigarettes, and pipes.

Snuff and chewing tobacco are forms of smokeless tobacco

Tobacco is smoked in cigars , cigarettes, and pipes.

Cigarettes are the most dangerous form of tobacco. People breathe the smoke that contains over 200 poisonous substances that enter their circulatory system and are carried to the body’s cells

Name the 3 harmful substances in cigarette smoke (click for answers) 1. Carbon Monoxide 2. Nicotine 3. Tar

Smoking has many bad side effects. How many can you name? Write down as many as you are able to think of in your notebook

Smoking Can Cause: Lung Cancer Chronic Bronchitis Emphysema Yellow Teeth Bad Breath

Smoking Can Cause:

Lung Cancer

Chronic Bronchitis

Emphysema

Yellow Teeth

Bad Breath

In your notebook write down 3 reasons why people begin to smoke. Then write down 3 reasons why you shouldn’t smoke.

Smokers are more likely to develop stomach ulcers than non-smokers, and ulcers take longer to heal in smokers(1) Smoking is also known to affect the body's immune system, which is the way the body protects itself against infection and disease (2). Smokers who have operations are more likely to have problems with the surgery and recovery, due to the effects of smoking on the heart, blood circulation and oxygen supply (3). Smokers have a poorer sense of smell than non-smokers and are more likely to snore. They may also form wrinkles around the eyes and mouth and change the color of the complexion (4). Cigarettes and lighters themselves also cause injury and even death. Hospital records show that children have been accidentally burnt by other people's cigarettes, and lighters and lighter fluid are also a cause of burns. Around one in four deaths caused by fires is due to fires started by cigarettes (5). Other effects of Smoking that some people might not be aware of include :

that the tar in cigarettes contains about 4000 chemicals including cancer causing substances? more than 1000 Americans die each day from the effects of smoking? smokers die on an average of 8.3 years sooner than non-smokers? if a smoker smokes one pack of cigarettes a day, after a year this individual would have smoked 7,300 cigarettes? (20 cigarettes per pack x 365 days in a year = 7,300) Other effects of Smoking that some people might not be aware of include :

~ Although most women believe that they are not vulnerable to lung cancer, they are definitely wrong. Both men and women are vulnerable to all the effects that smoking has to offer.

Women who smoke may also experience some birth defects to their unborn babies. When a women is pregnant she is not only responsible for herself, but for the unborn child inside her. Whatever she does to harm her health is also harming the health of her unborn baby.

Racing toward good health What steps can you take to refuse offers to use tobacco? Write down in your notebook what you can do to avoid smoking if offered the opportunity.

If someone asks you to try cigarettes, say “No, thank you.” Always be polite. If a person keeps asking you, you can say “No way,” in a convincing manner. Another way is to tell the person you have something else to do. Know the facts about tobacco. If someone asks you to smoke say, “No, thanks. I know smoking can make a person my age very sick.” No Thank You

If someone asks you to try cigarettes, say “No, thank you.” Always be polite. If a person keeps asking you, you can say “No way,” in a convincing manner.

Another way is to tell the person you have something else to do.

Know the facts about tobacco. If someone asks you to smoke say, “No, thanks. I know smoking can make a person my age very sick.”