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Tobacco Chapter 14 Sections 1&2
Statistics
• Smoking #1 preventable cause of death
• 18% of Americans smoke (42 million)
• Smoking responsible for 1 of 5 American deaths
• 3,000 children light up each day for first time
• 1,500 teens become regular smokers each day
• Worldwide, every 13 seconds someone dies from tobacco related illness
Why people use tobacco
• Advertising • Aimed at YOU!!! Teens must replace 6 million who die
• Why Teens? • Movies, TV • Cartoons (Joe Camel), Free stuff • **90% of smokers start as teens
• Nicotine Addiction • Nicotine = addictive ingredient in tobacco • Stress response ( h.r., b.p. up) • Withdrawal = craving, low b.p., nausea, headache, anxiety,
drowsiness, irritability
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Health Effects of Smoking
• Cigarette contents • 4,000 hazardous compounds (tar, ammonia,
formaldehyde)
• carcinogens = cancer causing agents - 43
• Lungs • tar makes mucus abnormally thick - coughing
• emphysema = disease which makes it hard to breath, die of heart attack/stroke
• bronchitis = thick mucus, deep hard coughing
• cancers – Page 381
• Cardiovascular System
• Nicotine ….
• Raises heart rate, blood pressure
• Reduces oxygen blood can carry
• Triggers blood clots
• Reduces blood to heart
• Other Effects of Tobacco – Page 383
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