briefly talking about tobacco

1. TOBACCO SMOKING
Prepared by:
Hawraz Faris Saadi

2. What is tobacco ?
 Tobacco is a plant grown for its leaves, which
are dried and fermented before being put in
tobacco products.
 Tobacco contains nicotine, an ingredient that
can lead to addiction.

3. How do people use tobacco?
 People can smoke, chew, or snuff tobacco.
 Smoked tobacco products include cigarettes,
cigars, bidis, and E-cigarette.
 Some people also smoke loose tobacco in a
pipe or hookah (water pipe).
 Chewed tobacco products include chewing
tobacco, snuff, dip.

4. How do people use tobacco?
Snuff
Cigars
Chewing tobacco
Hookah
Bidis tobacco
cigarette

5. Tobacco
 Is in legal use everywhere in the world, yet it
causes far more deaths than all other
psychoactive substances combined.
 About 3 million premature deaths a year (6%
of the world total) are already attributed to
tobacco smoking.

6. Facts about Smoking
 Each cigarette you smoke shortens your life
by 14 minutes.
 1/3rd of world population-Smoker
 Three million deaths annually because of
smoking – means one death after every 8
seconds.

7. Smokers Have:
 Limited sense of smell.
 Greater risk of chest infections.
 Greater risk of coronary heart disease.
 Greater risk of developing cancer.
 Greater risk of blindness.
 Greater risk of periodontal or gum disease.
 More wrinkles.

8. Component of tobacco
 The burning of tobacco generates
approximately 4000 compounds.
 The smoke can be separated into gas and
particulate phases.

9. Component of tobacco Cont.
 The composition of the smoke delivered to
the smoker depends on:
1) The composition of tobacco and how densely it is
packed.
2) The length of the column of tobacco.
3) The characteristics of the filter and the paper.

10. Component of tobacco Cont.
 Most important and dangerous constituents:
1) Nicotine
2) Carbon Monoxide
3) Tar

11. 1. Nicotine
 Nicotine is the addictive substance in
cigarette smoke.
 Nicotine enters the bloodstream via the lungs and
reaches the brain within 10 seconds of inhalation.
 The risk of developing dependence following
exposure to cigarettes is greater than the risk of
developing dependence following initial use of
cocaine, alcohol or marijuana.

12. 1. Nicotine Cont.
 The nicotine in cigarettes stimulates the body
to produce adrenaline, which makes the
heart beat faster and raising the blood
pressure, making the heart work harder and
raising myocardial oxygen demand.

13. 2. Carbon Monoxide
 Poisonous gas
 Absorbed by red blood cells
 Stops them carrying oxygen
 This means the heart has to pump harder to
supply the body with the oxygen it needs.

14. 3. Tar
 A mixture of chemicals.
 Affects the ciliated cells.
 Condenses in the lungs.
 Linked to cancer.
 Linked to heart disease
 Linked to circulation problems

15. If we are quite smoking can we
return to normal life ?

16. Benefits of quitting
 12 hours: the carbon monoxide level in your
blood returns to normal.
 2-12 weeks: blood circulation and lung
function begin to improve.
 1 year: the increased risk of having a heart
attack is reduced by half.

17. Benefits of quitting Cont.
 5 years: risk of a stroke is reduced to the
same risk as a person who never smoked.
 10 years: the risk of lung cancer is reduced.
 15 years: the risk of heart disease is that of a
nonsmoker.

18. Thanks for listening

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