All Aboard For a Healthy Fairfield Faith Based Tobacco Prevention ● Healthy & Active Living Presenter: Cheryl Y. Goodwin Special Services Coordinator
All Aboard For a Healthy Fairfield
Faith Based Tobacco Prevention ● Healthy & Active Living
Presenter: Cheryl Y. GoodwinSpecial Services Coordinator
Wisdom, Think about it!
Hosea 4:6 states: “My people are destroyed from lack of
knowledge…”
This presentation is designed to get you thinking about an individual’s smoking and/or dipping habits.
Youth Access To Tobacco Prevention Act of 2006
Effective August 21, 2006,It Is Unlawful for a Minor Under the Age of 18
To Purchase, Possess, or Attempt to PossessTobacco Products and/or
To Present False Proof of Age in Order to Purchase a Tobacco Product
Break the Law, Pay the Price…Civil Fines
Court-Ordered Prevention or Smoking-Cessation Program
Court-Ordered Community Service
ACTIVITY 1
THE STRAW GAME
ACTIVITY 2
Blowing more than smoke
“What’s Inyour snack?”
Cigarettes are a toxic pizza of ingredients
Cigarettes and secondhand smoke have over 7,000 chemicals, 70 of which are known to cause cancer
– TAR –
Particle matter made up of dozens of compounds. Some are cancer-
causing substances, others are poisonous, and still others are
harmless. Tar cools and forms a sticky substance in the lungs which damages delicate lung
tissue.
A gas found in car exhausts that drives
oxygen from thered blood cells.
Affects non-smokers who are exposed to
second-hand smoke.
Addiction is…
“A compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. The persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.”
– Merriam Webster’sCollegiate Dictionary,
10th edition
Fairfield Behavioral Health Services
200 Calhoun StreetPO Box 388Winnsboro, SC, 29180Phone: (803) 635-2335Fax: (803) 635-9695www.fairfieldbhs.orgVernon L. Kennedy, Sr.Executive Director