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Tobacco
Ch. 14
Lesson 1-7
The
What – How – Why’s
What do advertisements try to do?
 Tobacco Ads
 Teenage smoking
What does it cost to be tobacco
free?
 The average costs of a pack of
cigarettes is $6.90
 So 6.90 x 7 = 48.30 – Let’s just say
$50, because of taxes
 What could you do with $50 a week?
 $200 a month?
 1.Even though some forms of tobacco
may look safer than others do, they
are all unhealthy
 2.Nicotine is a highly addictive drug
found in all tobacco products
 Cigarettes, cigars, chew….
What happens to my body?
 Nicotine enters the blood and reaches
the brain
 Raises the heart rate, blood pressure
 Can make you feel
 Dizzy, relaxed, energetic
What are you allowing to enter
your body when you use tobacco?
 3. Name two of the thousands of
chemicals that enter your lungs when
you inhale cigarette smoke.
 Carbon monoxide
 Tar
 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic.
About 70 can cause cancer.
Tobacco’s Effects
 4. Name three chronic effects of
smoking.
 1. Bad breath
 2. Persistent coughing
 3. Shortness of breath
5. In addition to bad breath and yellow
teeth, smokeless tobacco can cause gum
disease and chronic white sores in the
mouth.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke OR
 6. Second hand smoke –
 The mix of exhaled smoke and smoke
from the end of lit cigarettes is
 a.
smokeless tobacco, chewing
tobacco,
or snuff.
 b.
environmental tobacco smoke
(ETS).
 c.
a nonsmoking environment or area.
 d.
a chronic effect or symptom.
2nd hand smoke….
 7. Environmental tobacco smoke is
especially dangerous for

a.
teenagers.
c. children.
b.

40
senior citizens. d.
adults over
What can be done to reduce the
effects?
 Laws have been put in place and
where people can smoke has changed
drastically over the past 10 years.
 Once the effects of ETS were
understood
 STOP
 Advertisements
Social and emotional health effects
 8. Describe three social and
emotional health effects of using
tobacco.
 1. Can put friendships in danger
 2. Strain relationships with parents
 3. Emotional difficulty because they
know they are risking their health
Tobacco, Disease and Death
 9. In the United States, about
400,000 + deaths are caused by
tobacco use each year.
 5 million world wide
Background information
 Cigarettes are relatively inexpensive
to make. The tobacco industry is one
of the most profitable in the US.
 The price society pays is HIGH!!
 Book: 167 Billion in medical expenses
 CDC: $193 billion in medical expenses
 We all pay. Smokers and non-smokers!
Is that fair…???
The FACTS are:
 10. Cancer is a disease in which
damaged cells grow out of control,
destroying healthy tissue and forming
lumps called tumors.
 11. The earlier people start using
tobacco, the higher their risk of
getting cancer and other tobaccorelated diseases.
Respiratory Disease- Lungs
 12. Name the two most common
smoking-related respiratory diseases.
 1. Chronic bronchitis
 2. Emphysema
Heart disease
 13. blood vessels that have been
tightened
 Constricted blood vessels
 14.
circulatory system diseases
 Cardiovascular disease
 15.
solid mass of blood particles
 Blood clot
Other health concerns
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16. Which of these are ways that
smoking can affect your health?
a. eye diseases
b. make it harder to recover from
colds and flu
c.
pregnancy complications, such
as premature birth
d. All of the above
Activity
 Cups and two straws
 Discuss
Tobacco is Addicting
 17. Regular use of tobacco products leads
to nicotine addiction.
 18.When nicotine attaches to a receptor in the brain,
it sends chemical messages that

a.
increase heart rate and blood pressure.

b.
increase your IQ.

c.
increase your thirst.
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d.
decrease your heart rate and blood
pressure.
Tolerance and Dependence
 19. the process of the body getting
used to a drug and needing more of it
to get the same effect is called
psychological
 20. The state in which the body needs
a drug to function normally is called
physical dependence.
Quitting Isn’t Easy!!
 27. To relapse is to begin using a
drug again after stopping for awhile.
 28. Quitting is difficult because
physical and psychological
dependence and the fear of
withdrawal, making nicotine very
difficult!
What does it take to quit?
 What ideas do you know of or have?
Why Quit?
 Discussion….
Why People Use Tobacco
 What do you think?
 29. Two internal pressures that might
make someone want to use tobacco
Our own thoughts.
 Boredom, emotional problems
What do you think?
 30. 75%
Being Tobacco FREE
 Let’s brainstorm ideas of what we can
do or say….
 You are going to write two skits
 One will be real short, the hamburger
method
 Positive, negative, positive or activity
Second skit….
 Two characters:
 Make up new names
 Short sentences
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One of you gives pressure
The other offers positive suggestions
Problem and final solution
4-6 sentences for the skit
Launch
 Tobacco Free
 Don’t start
 The Good News
Launch
 What are your goals for the week?
 What goals did you meet?
 What goals do you need to change or
make adjustments to?