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Tobacco 101
Coach Clausi
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Traditional Vs. Commercial
Tobacco
TRADITIONAL
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Smoked in a pipe for
ceremonial purposes
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Used as an offering to a
healer, elder or other
person as a sign of
respect or thanks
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Medicinal tobacco was
often used as a
painkiller
COMMERCIAL
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Deliberate targeting of
specific consumer
groups
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Premeditated and
conscious addition of
chemicals that lead to
addiction
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Scarcely contains actual
tobacco
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Commercial Tobacco
Contents
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4000 Chemicals
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40 Cancer causing agents
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500 Poisons
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Nicotine
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Poisonous
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More addictive than cocaine and heroine
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So powerful that farmers can’t use it to kill
insects
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Legal addiction
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Use results in emotional dependence
 Mood leveler
 Users rely on it to control emotional
responses to everyday life
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Carbon Monoxide
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The compound in car exhaust that
causes death
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Causes shortness of breath
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Reduces the amount of oxygen
blood can carry
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Tar
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Sticky Residue that stains the
fingers and teeth.
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Contains benzopyrene, one of
the deadliest cancer causing
agents known.
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Chemicals
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Acetone: fingernail polish remover
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Ammonia: floor/toilet cleaner
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Cadmium: batteries
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Arsenic: rat poison
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Methane: cow manure fumes
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Formaldehyde: preserver of dead bodies
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Metals
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Aluminum
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Silver
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Magnesium
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Lead
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Zinc
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Copper
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Silicon
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Mercury
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Titanium
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Heavy metals
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Nicotine
Hard Habit to Quit
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On a milligram for milligram basis, is 10 times
more potent than heroin as an addictive substance
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Smoking is an over-learned behavior
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Pack/day smoker estimates
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6 doses (puffs)/cigarette
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20 cigarettes per day
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= 43,800 doses per year!
Few behaviors occur more often. . .
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Breathing
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Blinking
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Nicotine
Hard Habit to Quit
Withdrawal Symptoms
Anxiety 87% *
Irritability 80% *
Difficulty
Concentrating 73% *
Tobacco
Cravings 62%
Headaches 24%
Restlessness 71%
Gastrointestinal
Problems 33%
Drowsiness 22%
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Tobacco
Individual Costs
A pack a day habit…
1 Year = $1,680
10 Years = $16,800
20 Years = $33,600
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Smokeless Tobacco
Facts & Stats
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Chew, Snuff, plug, leaf, and dip are all
forms of smokeless tobacco
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If you hold the average-sized dip in your
mouth for 30 minutes you get as much
nicotine as you would from 2-3 cigarettes
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Smokeless Tobacco
Facts & Stats
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Contains 28 cancer-causing
chemicals
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One can of Copenhagen is equal
to 3 packs of cigarettes
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Snuff dippers consume on average
10 times more cancer-causing
substances (nitrosamines -chemicals from the curing
process) than cigarette smokers
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Effects of
Smokeless Tobacco
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Tooth Abrasion
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Gum Disease
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Gum Recession
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Heart Disease and Stroke
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Cancer in the mouth, pharynx
(voice box), esophagus and
pancreas.
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Effects of
Smokeless Tobacco
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Increased heart rate
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Increased blood pressure
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Bad breath
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Reduced sense of smell
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Tobacco & Cancer
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Smoking is a major cause of cancers of
the oropharynx (base of the tongue) and
bladder among women.
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Women who smoke have increased
risks for cancers of the pancreas and
kidney.
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Larynx and esophagus cancer rates are
also elevated.
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Tobacco & Cancer
Healthy
lungs
Small cell
cancer in
Smoker’s
lung
Cancerous tumor
in the lung
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Tobacco & Diabetes
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Smoking and Diabetes both
reduce the amount of oxygen
reaching your bodily tissues,
resulting in poor circulation.
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Smoking raises your blood
sugar level making it harder
to control your diabetes.
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Of people with diabetes who
need amputations, 95% are
smokers.
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Tobacco & Diabetes
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Nicotine is a vessel constrictor, reducing
the body’s blood flow. Smoking increases
cholesterol levels and hardens arteries.
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Diabetes increases cholesterol levels and
the levels of some other fats in your
blood.
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The combined cardiovascular risks of
smoking and diabetes is as high as 14
times those of either smoking or diabetes
alone.
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Secondhand Smoke
• Smoke breathed out by a smoker and
smoke from the burning end of cigarettes,
cigars, pipes
• Composed of nearly 4,000 different
chemicals and over 150 toxins including
carbon monoxide
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Children &
Secondhand Smoke
• 38% of children aged 2 months to 5 years are
exposed to SHS in the home.
• Up to 2,000,000 ear infections each year
• Nearly 530,000 doctor visits for asthma
• Up to 436,000 episodes of bronchitis in
children under five
• Up to 190,000 cases of pneumonia in children
under five
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Children &
Secondhand Smoke
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Coughing and wheezing
Asthma
Sore throats and colds
Eye irritation
Hoarseness
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Pregnancy &
Secondhand Smoke
• Pregnant women
exposed to ETS 6
hours a day pass
carcinogens to the
blood of unborn
• ETS for 2 hours a day
causes 2 times risk of
low birth weight
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Miscarriage
Prematurity
Low birth weight
Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome
(SIDS)
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What You Can Do…
• If you smoke quit as soon as
possible!
• Do not allow smoking inside your
home or car – protect others from
Secondhand smoke.
• Get involved with tobacco
awareness campaigns – let others
know about the risk!
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When You Quit…
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Within 20 Minutes:
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Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
Carbon Monoxide level in blood drops to normal
Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
Smoker's breath disappears
Within 24 Hours:
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Pulse rate returns to normal
Within 8 Hours:
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Blood pressure drops to normal
Your chance of a heart attack decreases.
Within 48 Hours:
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Nerve endings start to re-grow
Your ability to smell and taste is enhanced
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When You Quit…
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Within 72 Hours:
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Bronchial tubes relax making it easier to breathe.
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Within 2 weeks - 3 months:
Lung capacity increases making it easier to do physical
activities
Circulation improves
Walking becomes easier
Lung function increases up to 30 %
Within 1 - 9 months:
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Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath
decrease
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Energy level increases
Cilia re-grow in lungs, increasing the ability to handle
mucus, clean lungs, reduce infection
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When You Quit…
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Within One Year:
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Within Two Years:
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Risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a
smoker
Heart attack risk drops to near normal
Within 5 Years:
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Lung cancer death rate for average pack-a-day
smoker decreases by almost half
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Stroke risk is reduced
Risk of mouth, throat and esophageal cancer is
half that of a smoker
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When You Quit…
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Within 10 Years:
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Lung cancer death rate is similar to
that of a person who does not smoke.
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The pre-cancerous cells are replaced.
Within 15 Years:
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Risk of coronary heart disease is the
same as a person who has never
smoked.
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