why is smoking bad for you? how does it cause heart disease and cancer?

Why is Smoking Bad for You?

Why is Smoking Bad for You?How Does it Cause Heart Disease and

Cancer?

What is Smoking?What is

Smoking?•Inhaling tobacco smoke into lungs through a pipe, cigar, or cigarette, and exhaling through nose or mouth.

The Origin of Smoking

The Origin of Smoking•First began when Native

Americans used Peace Pipes.

•Became popular in 1900s in U.S.

•People didn’t know that smoking was harmful until 50 years ago.

Why Do Smokers Start At Young

Ages?

Why Do Smokers Start At Young

Ages?•Peer pressure

•Parents or relatives smoke

•Ignorance

•Curiosity

•Weight loss

How is Nicotine Harmful?

How is Nicotine Harmful?

•A chemical found in cigarettes

•Extremely addictive

•Alters neurotransmitter's ability to send messages to brain

•Brain adjusts to nicotine level

•When not smoking, it causes imbalance and anxiety

How is Addiction Harmful?

How is Addiction Harmful?

•Becomes a habit

•Causes chemical imbalance in brain

•Feeling of anxiety

•Smoke more often, worsens health

What Is In A Cigarette?

What Is In A Cigarette?

•Ammonia

•Benzene

•Acetone

•Tar

•Formaldehyde

•Nicotine

•Carbon Monoxide

•Arsenic

•Hydrogen Cyanide

Health Consequences

(Short Term)

Health Consequences

(Short Term)•Yellowing of teeth

•Gum decay

•Eye/throat irritation

•Nausea

•Headache

•Coughing

Health Consequences(Long Term)

Health Consequences(Long Term)

•Respiratory infection

•Blood clots

•Lung disease

•Heart disease

•Stroke/paralysis

•Cancer

How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease?How Does Smoking

Cause Heart Disease?

•Allows tar present in smoke to enter

bloodstream

•Tar clots arteries and main valves



•Chemicals in smoke damage ventricles



•Creates infection in blood cells



•Heart must work harder to pump




Cause Heart Disease?•Heart is weakened and failure is

possible

How Does Smoking Cause Cancer?


•Harmful chemicals enter bloodstream

•Irregular cells appear in organs



•Cells multiply



•Create tumors (generally in lungs)



How Does Smoking Cause Lung Disease?How Does Smoking

Cause Lung Disease?

•Tar inhaled, builds on lungs

•Damages air sacs


Cause Lung Disease?

•Damages cilia


Cause Lung Disease?

•Airways tighten


Cause Lung Disease?

•Difficulty breathing


Cause Lung Disease?

What is Secondhand Smoke?

What is Secondhand Smoke?•Smoke from a smoldering

cigarette, cigar, etc.

•More toxic chemicals than exhaled smoke

•Causes nausea/headaches in nonsmokers

•Causes lung cancer in 3000 nonsmokers each year

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Author Unknown. “Health Effects of Smoking Among Young People.” June 15, 2003. Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS). 4/26/04. <http://www.cdc.gov/ tobacco/research_data/youth/stspta5.html>

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Glantz, Stanton A. “Smoking.” World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: Scott Fetzer Company, 2003 ed.

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About the AuthorAbout the AuthorMy name is Caitlin Hines. I am 13 years old and I live in Winston Salem, NC. I enjoy playing the clarinet in band and dancing on the competition team at In Motion Dance Center.

Smoking is an addictive, unhealthy habit, and the effects are irreversible. The best choice to make is to never start smoking.

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