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Smoking

Smoking. By: Jamie Ritondo and Kalli Doherty . Water Vapor/ E-cigarettes . Water Vapor smoking is part of the tobacco smoking family contains nicotine “Marketers of electronic cigarettes boast that they are less expensive than smoking cigarettes, partly because of high taxes on cigarettes”

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Smoking

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  1. Smoking By: Jamie Ritondo and Kalli Doherty

  2. Water Vapor/ E-cigarettes • Water Vapor smoking is part of the tobacco smoking family • contains nicotine • “Marketers of electronic cigarettes boast that they are less expensive than smoking cigarettes, partly because of high taxes on cigarettes” • some people load up on nicotine if they know they won't be able to smoke for a while • people who smoke have 2 more sick days than nonsmokers • used to stop smoking but teenagers have adapted to them as an alternative

  3. E-cigarettes work a little different than your average cigarette

  4. Smokeless Tobacco • chewing tobacco, snuff, plug, or spit tobacco • chewing tobacco is a leaf that is put into your cheek • tobacco is the number 1 cause of illness ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a look at this video about smoking! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYEFu-GKP4

  5. Hookah • when you inhale flavored tobacco from a water pipe it may seem more exotic but it can actually be more dangerous • levels of carbon monoxide can rise you change of heart attack and stroke • 2.5 times higher of a chance to have a heart attack or stroke from doing hookah over taking a puff of smoke • people who do it a few times are fine, but if a hookah bar is your go to place to hangout at then you should find a new hangout place

  6. Health • girls who diet more than once a week are four times more likely to smoke • Boston Children’s hospital thinks that dieting increases nicotine cravings • when you have too much nicotine it can alter your behavior and ability to work

  7. Thanks for watching!

  8. Citations • Pine, Jordan. "EZ Smoker." Response Feb. 2010: 20. General OneFile. Web. 4 Feb. 2014. • Not exactly health IT; Battery-powered electronic cigarettes hit the store shelves, but not incorporated into employers' smoking-cessation programs." Gale Database. Employee Benefit News, 26 June 2009. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. • Douglas, Ann, and Julie Douglas. Body Talk. Belgium: Maple Tree Press Inc., 2002. Print. • Hookahs are safer than cigarettes." Gale Database. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. • 2014. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC/ • Hookahs are safer than cigarettes." Gale Database. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&rlt=1&bucket=ref&o=&n=10&searchTerm=2NTA&l=d&index=BA&basicSearchOption=KE&tcit=1_1_1_1_1_1&c=4&docNum=A281567373&locID=mlin_n_coolidge&secondary=false&t=RK&s=1&SU=tobacco>. • Douglas, Ann, and Julie Douglas. Body Talk. Belgium: Maple Tree Press Inc., 2002. Print.

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