This document summarizes the effects of smoking cigarettes. It discusses the history of cigarettes and their contents, including over 4,000 chemicals and 60 carcinogens. Some key effects mentioned include lung cancer, COPD, premature aging, low sperm count, and heart disease. Smoking also increases risks for low birth weight, premature birth, and learning disabilities if a woman smokes during pregnancy. The document encourages quitting smoking to avoid its harmful health effects.

1. Effect Of Smoking cigarette
Presented by; Ranjeet Shah
Pharm D
Chitkara University

2. Smoking
 Smoking is a practice in
which a substance is
burned and the resulting
smoke breathed in to be
tasted and absorbed into
the bloodstream.

3. Cigarette
 A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely
cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking.
The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed
to smoulder

4. History
 In 1865,a man named washington duke from
North Carolina began to roll cigarettes and sell
them to others for profit.
 In 1883, James Bonsack invented that could roll
cigarettes and produce thousands per day.
 The history of smoking dates back to as early as
5000 BC in shamanistic rituals.Many ancient
civilizations,such as the Babylonias, indians and
chinese burnt incense in part of religious rituals, as
did the later catholic and orthodox cristians
churches.

5. History
The smoking of tobacco as well
as various hallucinogenic drugs
was used to trances and to come
in contact with the spirit of
world.
 Cannabis smoking was common in sub-
saharan Africa through Ethiopia and the
east African coast in the middle east
before the arrival of tobacco, and was
early on a common social activity that
centered around the type of water pipe
called a hookah.

6. Cigarettes Contains
 Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 different
chemicals and compounds.
60 are known carcinogenic.
Some of them are as follows.
Nicotine
Tar
Carbon monoxide
Ammonia
Formaldehyde
Hydrogen cyanide

8. Reasons to Smoke
Some want to act cool or act like someone
special or dangerous.
They want to get attention.
They are curious about cigarettes.
Peer pressure
They are stressed or nervous.

9. Effects Of Smoking
Every puff of cigarettes contains a mxture of
nicotine and crbon monoxide and each time
you smoke,it temporarily increases your
Heart rate and
Blood pressure.
It also injuries your heart and blood vessels.
Loss of Appetite
Yellowing of teeth
Yellowing of facial hair

10. Effects Of Smoking
Halitosis (Bad Breath)
Lung cancer
Memory loss with passage of time
Premature aging
Low sperm count
Emphysea
COPD
Wrinkles

11. Let’s examine a few of these
effects
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer, also known
as carcinoma of the
lung or pulmonary carcinoma, is a
malignant lung
tumor characterized by
uncontrolled cell
growth in tissues of the lung.
 Radon is the second-most
common cause of lung cancer in
the USA,causing about 21,000
deaths each year.

13. COPD
COPD: It stands for Chronic obstructive
Pulmonary Disease.
 “The co- occurance of chronic bronchitis and
emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing
diseases of the lungs in which the airways
become narrowed.This leads to a limitation o
the flow of air to and from the lungs, causing
shortness o f breath.”
Simply put, COPD patients find it hard to
breath.

14. Premature Aging
Smokers tend to age quickly even though they
may not be advanced in years.their face say it
all.Full of wrinkles and lacking in shine.this is
bescause every puff of cigarette smoke you
inhale diminshes the skin’s oxygen supply by
reducing circulation.
Collagen, the fibrous protein responsible fpr
producing new, healthy skin, is gretly reduced
while the water content of the skin also drops
significantly.
This I what leads to a smoker’s sagging and ugly
skin.

16. Low Sperm Count
Men who smoke may have a lower sperm
count than do those who don’t smoke.
Additionally , smokers tend to have lower sex
drives and less frequent sex, according to the
American Society for Reproductive medicine
and the Canadian Fertility society.

18. Low Sperm Count
On the average, smokers had sex only half the
times compared to non-smokers and sex was
less gratifying.
The semen of non-smokers was superior to that
of smokers both in terms of sperm viability and
longevity a the toxins from nicotine as the toxins
from nicotine weakens sperm count
Sperm motility reduces sperm life span, and may
cause genetic changes that put the child at risk.
Second hand smoke may also affect male
fertility

19. Heart Diseases
Smokers tend to suffer from heart diseases
and strokes.This is because smoking causes
fat deposits to constrict and block blood
vessels which leads to heart attack.
Statistics have it that smoking causes around
two in five deaths from heat diseases. In
younger people two out of four deaths from
heart disease are due to cigarette smoking.

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21. Effects of Smoking During
Pregnancy
Smoking during pregnancy can be likened to
putting a cigarette in your baby’s mouth.This is
because e babies take in over 70% of what you take
in, including what you breathe
Therefore ,cigarette smoking during pregnancy
increases the risk of low birth weight, premature
birth, spontaneous abortion, and parental mortality
in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal
tobacco syndrome. it has even been linked to
learning disabilities in children whose parents
smoked when they were in womb.

23. Way Out of Smoking
No matter what happens, just know that the
effects of smoking far outweigh what you think
could be getting from it and the wisest thing to
do is to quit!You may think it’s hard to quit but I
tell you it’s hard because you have not made up
your mind to do it. Make up your mind this very
minute because it’s within your power to do! Us
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