A cigarette is a roll of tobacco wrapped in paper that contains many harmful chemicals. When smoked, these chemicals enter the lungs and bloodstream, spreading throughout the body and harming organs within seconds. Over time, smoking can damage the heart, lungs, and other organs by narrowing blood vessels, depriving tissues of oxygen, coating lungs with tar, and irritating tissues. Long-term smokers have a much higher risk of developing many cancers, heart disease, and other illnesses that can significantly shorten life expectancy.
2. WHAT IS A CIGARETTE?
- a cylindrical roll of shredded or ground
tobacco that is wrapped in paper or
another substance that does not contain
tobacco.
3. WHAT IS SMOKING?
Smoking, the act of inhaling and
exhaling the fumes of burning plant
material. A variety of plant materials
are smoked, including marijuana
and hashish, but the act is most
commonly associated with tobacco
as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or
pipe.
5. EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE
• When you smoke, harmful chemicals enter your lungs and
spread through your body. They can;
• reach your brain, heart and other organs within 10 seconds
of your first puff
• go everywhere your blood flows, harming every part of your
body.
6. HOW TOBACCO DAMAGES YOUR BODY
• Nicotine
• narrows your veins and arteries.
• This can damage your heart by forcing it to work faster
and harder slow your blood and reduce oxygen to your
feet and hands
7. • Carbon monoxide
• deprives your heart of the oxygen it needs to pump
blood around your body.
• Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into
your lungs.
8. • Tar
• is a sticky substance that coats your lungs like soot in a
chimney
9. • Phenols
• paralyse and kill the hair-like cells in your airways.
• These cells sweep clean the lining of your airways and
protect them against infections
10. • Ammonia and formaldehyde
• irritate your eyes, nose and throat
11. HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE WAY YOU LOOK
• cause yellow-brown stains on your fingers, tongue and teeth
• increase your risk of tooth loss and bad breath
• make your skin saggy and give you early wrinkles
• make your hair lose its natural shine
12. HEALTH EFFECTS
• reduce your life expectancy and your quality of life
• increase your risk of many conditions and diseases as well as of dying
prematurely.
• It can be a long time before smokers get a smoking-related condition or
disease. Because of this, some people believe it won’t happen to them.
• In fact, up to ⅔ of long term smokers will:
• die of a smoking-related disease
• have their life cut short by about 10 years on average, compared to non-
smokers
13. LUNG CANCER
Cigarettes also relate to developing
emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
They can also trigger or exacerbate an
asthma attack
16. HEART DISEASE
• The chemicals and tar in cigarettes
can increase a person’s risk of
atherosclerosis, which is the
buildup of plaque in the blood
vessels. This buildup limits blood
flow and can lead to dangerous
blockages.
20. INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
• The integumentary system
consists of a person’s skin,
hair, and nails.
• Smoking tobacco can affect a
person’s skin and hair. A
person who smokes may
experience prematurely aged,
wrinkled skin.
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22. DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
• Smokers are more
likelyTrusted Source to
develop gastritis —
inflammation in the
stomach lining — than
non-smokers, which can
lead to ulcers in their
stomachs or intestines.
