The Effects of Smoking

The Effects of Smoking

By: Ms Hope

TODAY’S GOAL: Understand the effects of cigarette smoke on the body

Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death.

1 in every 5 deaths is caused by cigarette smoking

HIV

Cigarettes kill more people than all of these combined

Suicides Drugs

Motor Vehicle Injuries

Alcohol Murders

On average smokers die

13 to 14 years earlier

than nonsmokers

Compared with Nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase the risk of…

• coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times• stroke by 2 to 4 times• men developing lung cancer by 23 times• women developing lung cancer by 13 times• dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.

Coronary Heart Disease

Exercise Tolerance

Blood Pressure

Blood Clots

A Smoker’s Red Blood Cell

CANCER

Rates of cancers related to cigarette smoking vary widely among members

of racial/ethnic groups but are the highest among African-American men.

Emphysema

Occurs when the tiny air sacs in the

lungs become inflamed, over-stretched, and

rupture

BronchitisAn inflammation of the lungs caused by an infection

Pneumonia

Inflammation of the lungs caused by an infection

Cigarettes create over 4,000 chemicals when burned

Cigarette chemicals

damage the collagen

and elastin in the skin

which leads to

Premature Wrinkles

Smoking yellows teeth, fingers, and nails

Smoking while pregnant causes…

• Infertility• Preterm delivery• Low birth weight• Stillbirth• SIDS

Michigan Statistics

Why is all of this important???

More than 80% of adult smokers begin smoking before age 18.

Class Activity• Now we are going to the gym and

you are going to see what it feels like to be a long-term smoker.

• Does anyone have Asthma?