This document discusses the dangers of smoking and tobacco use. It notes that nearly 4,400 kids between 12-17 start smoking every day. Reasons kids may start include curiosity, rebellion, or growing up around others who smoke. Short term effects of smoking include bad breath, yellow teeth, and difficulty in sports. Long term effects are much more serious, including cancer, heart disease, and other health problems. The document outlines various parts of cigarettes and shows images demonstrating smoking's damage to lungs, blood vessels, and other organs over time.

2. A LIT UP CIGARETTE!!

3. Introduction
• Smoking is one of
the worst things
kids or adults can do
to their bodies. Yet
every single day
nearly 4,400 kids
between the ages
12 and 17 start
smoking.

4. Why do people smoke??
There's more than just one
simple answer. Some kids
may start smoking just
because they're curious.
Others may like the idea of
doing something dangerous
- something grown-ups don't
want them to do. Still others
might have grown up around
lots of people who smoke
and they might think it's the
way to act like an adult.

5. What you’ve heard, that kids don’t
realise!!!
• You've probably heard that smoking
and tobacco use can cause cancer and
heart disease. That's true, but
sometimes kids can't really think that
far into the future to worry about an
illness they might not get for 20 years.
Some of the problems that might affect
kids more quickly:
• bad breath
• yellow teeth
• smelly clothes
• more colds and coughs
• difficulty keeping up with friends
when playing sports
• Empty wallet - cigarettes and
tobacco products are very expensive!

6. What is Smoking and
Smokeless Tobacco?
• Tobacco is a plant that can
be smoked in cigarettes,
pipes, or cigars. It's the
same plant that's in
smokeless tobacco, known
as dip, chew, snuff, spit, or
chewing tobacco.
Smokeless tobacco is not
lit and breathed in like
tobacco in cigarettes,
pipes, and cigars. Instead,
smokeless tobacco is put
between the lip and gum
and sucked on inside the
mouth.

7. What is the main ingredient in
tobacco?
• Tobacco contains
nicotine, a chemical
that causes a tingly or
good feeling - but that
feeling only lasts for a
little while. Nicotine is
also addictive that
means that if you start
to use nicotine, your
body and mind will
become so used to it
that you’d need to
have it just to feel OK.
Tobacco plant

8. What's It Like?
• Usually, people don't like
smoking or chewing tobacco
at first. Your body is smart,
and it knows when it's being
poisoned. When people try
smoking for the first time,
they often cough a lot and
feel pain or burning in their
throat and lungs. This is your
lungs' way of trying to protect
you and tell you to keep them
smoke free. Also, many
people say that they feel sick
in their stomachs or even
throw up. If someone
accidentally swallows
chewing tobacco, they may be
sick for hours.

9. Why Is It So Bad for You?
• Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco kill hundreds
of thousands of people every year. The nicotine
and other poisonous chemicals in tobacco cause
lots of diseases, like heart problems and some
kinds of cancer. If you smoke, you hurt your
lungs and heart each time. It also can make it
more difficult for blood to move around in the
body, so smokers may feel tired and cranky.
The longer you smoke, the worse the damage
becomes.

10. Some Side Effects of Smoking
•Smokers are more likely to be absent from work than non-smokers,
and their illnesses last longer. Smokers tend to get more medical
costs, to see physicians more often , and to be admitted to the
hospital more often and for longer periods than non-smokers.
• Smokers have a lower survival rate after surgery compared to that
of non-smokers because of damage to the body's host defences,
delayed wound healing, and reduced immune response. Smokers are
at greater risk for complications following surgery, including wound
infections, postoperative pneumonia, and other respiratory
complications.
•Periodontitis is a serious gum disease that can result in the loss of
teeth and bone loss. Smoking is causally related to periodontitis. This
may be because smoking affects the body's ability to fight infection
and repair tissue.

11. Effects of Smoking on the Body
Organ Short Term effects Long Term effects
Brain head-aches Stop body parts from
working & KILLS YOU
Eyes cannot focus Go Blind
Ears become a little deaf Totally Deaf
Mouth yellow teeth, bad breath Mouth Cancer
Skin wrinkles Skin Cancer
Heart strokes, increases
heart beat
Heart Disease
Lungs asthma Lung Cancer
Stomach problems for un-
born babies
Stomach Cancer
Limbs shaky hands Amputated limbs

12. Parts of a Cigarette!!!!

13. The black colour in this lung is due to
cigarette smoke!!!!!

14. Damaged toes due to poor blood
circulation- will lead to amputation

15. Result of damage to blood vessels due
to smoking!!!!!!

16. Expansion of finger ends-
associated with breathing and heart
problems!