This public service announcement warns about the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke. It notes tobacco products contain over 7,000 chemicals including nicotine, which is addictive. One drag of a cigarette can lead to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Secondhand smoke kills over 100 people per day. The ad encourages pregnant women, young adults, and African Americans exposed to secondhand smoke to quit smoking for their health and the health of loved ones. It emphasizes that once you start smoking it is difficult to quit and urges people to live smoke-free lives.

1. PSA Images
Asha Austin

2. Over 7,000 chemicals
Includes
Nicotine, an
addictive drug

3. One drag can lead to SIDS.

4. Big Tobacco’s products kill 113 people from
secondhand smoke every day.

5. Is it worth the risk?

6. In just one year, about 12,000 kids lost their
mothers to tobacco-related disease in the US

7. Pregnant smokers
Think
about your
baby

8. Young adults
Think about
your future

9. About 20% of African American youth are
exposed to secondhand smoke in the home.

10. Tiny package consequencesHUGE

11. Can you have just one?

12. You will always go back for more.

13. the pack and the habitCRUSH CRUSH

14. Quit
for your
loved ones Quit for
you!
for your family
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
LIVE
live for
you!

15. Resources
• Facts. (n.d.). Retrieved August 7, 2014, from
http://www.thetruth.com/facts/
• Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke. (2014, March 5). Retrieved
August 7, 2014, from
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand
_smoke/health_effects/