1 / 295

Ch. 24 Tobacco Use: A High Risk Behavior

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of avoidable death in the United States, with 400,000 deaths each year. This resource provides information on the risks of smoking, why young people start smoking, addiction and withdrawal, chemicals in cigarettes, and the dangers of smokeless tobacco. Test your smoking IQ, watch a cancer video, and find resources to help you quit smoking.

terid
Download Presentation

Ch. 24 Tobacco Use: A High Risk Behavior

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ch. 24 Tobacco Use:A High Risk Behavior

  2. Test Your Smoking IQ Hypertension What Happens When You Quit Cancer video link What Smoking Can Do for YOU!

  3. Read Ch. 24

  4. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of avoidable death in the United States (400,000 deaths each year in the U.S.A.) • Cigarettes are the most widely used of all the tobacco products.

  5. Fifty million Americans smoke • Teens are the nations fastest growing group of smokers

  6. Why young People Start Smoking • 1 in 5 American teens smoke • About one million young people start smoking every year.

  7. 6,ooo teens light up their first cigarette every day • 3,ooo teens become regular smokers every day • 9 in 10 adult smokers began smoking as teens • The average smoker needs over 5000 cigarettes a year.

  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

  9. Every day more than 1000 adults die prematurely as a result of an adolescent decision (USDHHS, 1996).

  10. Of those who begin smoking as teens, one third will eventually die from some smoking related cause.

  11. One Pack a Day Smoker: • 7300 cigarettes a year. • $2920.00 @ $8.00 a pack a year.

  12. So, why do teens start to smoke? • feel insecure in social situations • make them seem older • more sophisticated • peer pressure

  13. seem attractive • advertising • wrongly think bad effects occur only after many years of smoking

  14. Perhaps the greatest reason young people smoke is that they believe they can drop the habit at any time. • Addiction- a physiological and psychological dependence on a substance or activity.

  15. Physiological dependence • Physiological dependence- The body develops a chemical need for a drug.

  16. Psychological dependence • Psychological dependence- a person believes a drug is needed in order to feel good or to function normally

  17. Withdrawal • Withdrawal- occurs when a person stops using a drug on which he or she is physiologically dependent

  18. Symptoms of Withdrawal • Symptoms of this process can include nervousness, insomnia, severe nausea, headaches, vomiting, chills, cramps, and, in some instances, even death

  19. What is in Cigarettes? • Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. • 25 to 43 chemicals known to cause cancer (carcinogens)

  20. cyanide, formaldehyde (same chemical used to preserve dead animals in biology class), arsenic

  21. Carcinogens • carcinogens- cancer causing

  22. Nicotine • addictive drug in cigarettes • stimulant- a drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs • raises blood pressure • a deadly poison used as an insecticide

  23. Tar • Tar- a thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns • Penetrates the smokers airways and lungs

  24. Paralyzes cilia- the hair like structures in the respiratory tract that help keep it clean. • Destroys the cilia • Contains several carcinogens

  25. A Year’s Worth of Tar This graphic, sealed exhibit, which contains a pack of cigarettes and cigarette butts submerged in gooey tar, represents the amount of carcinogenic liquid one-pack-a-day smokers put into their lungs in a year’s time. 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 4".

  26. Cilia • Microscopic hairlike structures that keep the lungs clean by capturing dust and foreign matter.

  27. How the lungs work

  28. Low tar, low nicotine cigarette’s • Encourage smoker to inhale more deeply • Encourage smoker to smoke more cigarettes

  29. Carbon Monoxide • Carbon monoxide- a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas in cigarette smoke that passes through the lungs into the blood

  30. Carboxyhemoglobin* • Carboxyhemoglobin- when carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin in the red blood cells. This combination does not allow oxygen to combine with the hemoglobin, robbing the body and it’s cells of oxygen needed for energy

  31. Carboxyhemoglobin

  32. Hot off of ESPN news May 1, 2009

  33. Quote from Brett Favre: • “Don’t cry Brooke!!!!!!”

  34. Smokeless Tobacco • Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose or chewed. • Chewing tobacco- more coarse type of tobacco • Snuff- more finely ground tobacco that is chewed

  35. Smokeless tobacco carries many of the same health risks as smoking cigarettes. • And More!

  36. Damage to teeth and gums • Damage to the digestive system when smokeless tobacco user swallow tars and nicotine • Tobacco juices also contain chemicals that may delay healing of wounds

More Related