The document discusses the negative health impacts of tobacco use and smoking based on the personal experiences of Patrick Reynolds, whose family founded R.J. Reynolds tobacco company. It details how Reynolds' grandfather, father, mother, two aunts and three brothers all suffered health problems and early deaths due to smoking, demonstrating the link between tobacco and cancer. The document also provides statistics on smoking-related deaths in the U.S. and warns that the tobacco industry claims about health risks are untrue.

1. TOBACCO
“Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it
hundreds of times!”
Mark Twain

2. The R.J. Reynolds Family Tree
“My name is Patrick Reynolds.
My grandfather, R. J. Reynolds, founded the tobacco
company that makes Camels, Winston's, and Salem's.
We’ve all heard the tobacco industry say smoking doesn’t
cause health problems. We’ll, they ought to look at the R. J.
Reynolds’ family tree!!
My grandfather chewed tobacco and died of cancer.
My father smokes heavily and died of emphysema.
My mother smoked and had emphysema and heart disease.
My two aunts, also heavy smokers, died of emphysema.
Currently, three of my older brothers who smoke have
emphysema.
I smoked for 10 years, and now I have something called,
“small-airways lung disease.
Do you really think the tobacco companies are being
truthful?”

3. I. Facts
 A. Surgeon General: The U.S.
government’s doctor for the entire nation –
high position.
 WARNING: “The Surgeon General called
cigarette smoking the chief, single, most
avoidable, cause of death in our society and
the most important public health issue of our
time!!”

4. B. Where does it come from?
 Grown in southern colonies, South America,
Central America.
 Columbus introduces tobacco to Europe.

6. B. Where does tobacco come from?
 1. What are the different ways to use it?
 Pipes
 Cigars
 Cigarettes
 Snuff
 chew

7. C. Smoke-related deaths
 450,000 deaths each year from people
smoking
 Does it affect you?
 How?

8. D. High School Statistics
 Over 5000 teens start smoking each day
 90% of all smokers started by the age of 19
 Girls smokers are on the rise!!

9. E. Cost of Smoking (1 pack =$8.75)
 If you smoke 2 packs a day = $17.50
 1 week = $122.50
 1 month = $958
 1 year = $11,496
 10 years = $114,960
Will be much more because the price of
cigarettes will go up every year!!!

10. F. Industry
 1. Very profitable business
 2. In 2010 - $87 billion in sales
 3. In 2010 - $164 million was spent
on healthcare, lost wages, and
research!

11. II. VOCABULARY
 A. Nicotine: Stimulant drug found in
tobacco, causes adrenaline to be released,
heart rater to increase by 20 beats after only
2 cigarettes.
 B. Carbon Monoxide: a poisonous gas
that quickly combines with hemoglobin.
**This is a test question!!

12.  C. Cilia: hair like structures
projected from the mucous
membrane of the air passages.
 D. Tar: residue formed
when gases and particles of
tobacco smoke condenses.
 E. Carcinogenic: Cancer causing agent

13. III. Cigarette Smoke
 A. Contains 4000 chemicals, including
43 that are known to cause cancer!
 B. Some additives in cigarettes, when
heated to 880 degrees F become
carcinogenic.

14.  C. Chemicals
 1. Cyanide – deadly poison
 2. Formaldehyde – used to preserve organs and
tissues taken from humans and animals
 3. Methanol – wood alcohol
 4. Acetylene – fuel used in torches
 5. Ammonia – found in household cleaning
products
 6. Acetone – in paint remover
 7. Nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide –
poisonous gases
 8. Nicotine – addictive drug, dewormer in large
animals.

15. IV. Effects of Tobacco
 A. Just one cigarette:
 1. Decreases your skin temperature
 2. Obstructs the flow of blood and air into the
lungs.
 3. Increases heart rate: an extra 15-20 points.
 4. Raises blood pressure: 10-20 points
 5. Decreases control of hand
to eye coordination.

16. B. Social effects:
 Bad breath
 Clothes smell
 Smokers cough
 Expensive $$$$$$$$
 Yellow teeth
 Hair & nails brittle
 Loss of taste
 wrinkles

17.  C. Physiological
 1. Carbon Monoxide: Blood cells attach to it
rather than oxygen. Oxygen levels go down
and the heart has to work harder.
 2. Smoker’s cough: Cilia damaged by
chemicals, mucus can’t be moved through
the lungs – makes you cough.
 3. Nicotine Poisoning: Too many, too quickly
– dizzy, fainting, clammy skin, vomiting,
diarrhea.

18.  4. Heart Disease: Overworks the heart
 5. Blood Vessels: Chemicals cause them
to constrict, heart must work harder, blood
doesn’t get to the fingers and toes.
 5. Adrenaline: Hormone in body, nicotine
causes it to be released; feel nervous,
tense, heart speeds up.

19. Smoking causes fat to stick to artery
walls

22. Healthy Lung
Bad Lungs

24.  7. Lung Cancer: #1 cancer killer in the U.S.;
smoking is responsible for 83% of lung
cancer.
 8. Bronchitis: Inflammation of the walls of
the bronchi
 9. Emphysema: Disease where air
passages are constricted and air flow is
reduced.

25. V. Stages of Addiction
 A. Pleasure smoker: social smoker – at
parties, etc.
 B. Negative effects smokers:
1. Smokes to relieve stress
2. Psychological dependence:
being dependent on something to
the point of becoming emotionally
upset without it.

26.  C. Habitual smoker:
 1. Addiction: Dependent upon the chemical
 2. Physical dependence: person’s body has
become dependent on the chemical.
 D. Heavy smoker:
 1. chain smokes to keep enough nicotine in
the blood stream
 2 Withdrawal: discomfort and sickness that
people suffer from when they stop taking a
drug.

27. VI. Why do people start?
 A. Peer pressure
 B. Feel grown up
 C. Parents smoke
 D. Advertising
 E. Diet

29. Speeds up Nicotine stimulates
adrenaline,
Heart rate goes up.
Dulls taste buds
Cancer of
Larynx &
esophagus
Chronic lung disease
Emphysema
Raises heart beats Lung cancer
Constricts blood
vessels - Heart attack
Ulcers
Cirrhosis Burning
Reduces ability
to process
Adrenaline speeds up fluids & waste
the heart – increases
blood pressure
Constricts vessels
Heart attack
Vertebral
cancer
Cancer
Reduces sex drive Early onset of
Increases impotence osteoporosis
Cervix cancer &
miscarriages