Over 1 billion males and 250 million females worldwide smoke, with higher rates in industrialized countries. Smoking causes over 3 million deaths annually currently, expected to rise to over 10 million by 2020. While smoking rates decreased 10% in developed nations since 1970, they increased 60% in developing countries. Cigarettes are the most common and harmful tobacco product, but other forms like bidis, hookahs, and chewing tobacco are also used. Adolescents are particularly susceptible to smoking due to curiosity, rebelliousness, and influence of advertising that portrays smoking positively. Tobacco contains over 4000 toxic substances like nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar that are addictive and cause serious health issues like cancer, lung disease

2. • 1/3rd of world population-Smoker
– Males: > 1 billion
– Females: > 250 million
• Industrialized Countries
– % of Male smokers: 50%
– % of Female smokers 22%
• Developing countries
– Males 35%
– Females 9%
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3.  Three million deaths annually because of
smoking – means one death after every 8
seconds.
 Ten million deaths annually expected by 2020
- means one death after every three seconds.
 Developed countries have reduced smoking
by 10% while developing countries have
increased by 60% after 1970.
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5. • Cigarette - Most common and most harmful
• Sheesha
• Bidi
• Tobacco chewing
• Hookah(Hubble bubble)
• Cigar
• Kreteks(clove cigarettes)
• Snuff – Moist & Dry
• E-cigarette
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6. Usually the adolescents (mostly of
10-15 yrs) indulge in smoking as a result of
curiosity,
adventurism,
rebelliousness and adulthood,
a manly and masculine act that will lead them to
happiness, fitness, wealth, power and sexual success.
Attractive advertisements influence the immature and
unstable minds.
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7. About 4000 toxic substances are
present in tobacco
Most important and dangerous
constituents:
– Nicotine
– Carbon Monoxide
– Tar
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8. Nicotine
Poisonous
More addictive than cocaine and heroine
So powerful that farmers can use it to kill insects
Legal addiction
Use results in emotional dependence
 Mood leveler
 Users rely on it to control emotional
responses to everyday life
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9. Carbon Monoxide
The compound in car exhaust that
causes death
Causes shortness of breath
Reduces the amount of oxygen
blood can carry
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10. Tar
Sticky Residue that stains the
fingers and teeth.
Contains benzopyrene, one of
the deadliest cancer causing
agents known.
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11. Chemicals
Acetone: fingernail polish remover
Ammonia: floor/toilet cleaner
Cadmium: batteries
Arsenic: rat poison
Methane: cow manure fumes
Formaldehyde: preserver of dead bodies
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13. Smoking ages the skin, causing it to
wrinkle earlier than a nonsmoker’s skin.

14. Cigarette smoke leads to bad breath and
stained teeth.

15. The tar in cigarette smoke coats the
inside of the lungs, leading to lung cancer.

16. Nicotine is carried from the lungs to the
brain within seven seconds. It releases
chemicals in the brain that cause tobacco
users to want more nicotine.