smoking dangers
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L/O/G/O
6TH GRADE
SOCIAL STUDIES
SMOKING DANGERS
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WHAT IS “SMOKING”?
Smoking means breathing the smoke of burning tobacco leaves.
Tobacco is a plant with big green leaves.
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WAYS OF “SMOKING”
Tobacco is processed for smoking in different ways. People smoke tobacco in pipes, cigars, waterpipes and cigarettes.
Shisha Pipe Cigar CigaretteWaterpipe
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Small cylinder of cut tobacco leaves
rolled in thin paper
Tightly-rolled bundle of dried &
fermented tobacco
Consists of a bowl for the combustion of
tobacco leaves and a thin stem ending in
a mouthpiece
Instrument for smoking flavored tobacco in which the
smoke is passed through a water basin
before inhalation
SMOKING TOBACCO
Cigarette Cigar
WaterpipePipe
WAYS OF “SMOKING”
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HOW HARMFUL IS SMOKING?
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HOW HARMFUL IS SMOKING?
Tobacco is 2nd major cause of mortality in theworld & currently responsible for the death ofabout 1 in 10 adults worldwide.Every year hundreds of thousands of peoplearound the world die from diseases caused bysmoking.One in two lifetime smokers will die fromtheir habit. Half of these deaths will occurin middle age.
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HOW HARMFUL IS SMOKING?
Tobacco contains nicotine,an addictive drug
Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels(coronary heart disease) whichleads to heart attack.
Smoking makes teeth and fingersget stained brown. Hair, clothes and breath stink after smoking
Tobacco smoke contains morethan 4,000 chemical compounds,including at least 43 cancercausing compounds
Smoking causes lung cancer,emphysema, and other respiratory diseases
Smokers may get "peripheralvascular disease" – restrictsblood flow to the hands and feet.
Smoking robs the body’s energy.
Smoking ages the skin prematurely
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A CIGARETTE INGREDIENTS…
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ONLY ONE CIGARETTE …
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CIGARETTES EFFECTS
increases the heart rate and blood pressure, straining heartand blood vessels. This can cause heart attacks and stroke.It slows the blood flow, cutting off oxygen to feets andhands. Some smokers end up having their limbs amputated.
coats the lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. Lung cancer is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.
robs muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making thewhole body and especially the heart work harder. Overtime, smoker's airways swell up and let less air into thelungs.
Nicotine and carbon monoxide
Tar
Carbon monoxide
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Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strainof smoking effects on the body often causes years ofsuffering.
SMOKING & EMPHYSEMA
Emphysema is a long-term, progressive diseaseof the lungs thatprimarily causesshortness of breath. It isan illness that slowly rotsthe lungs. People withemphysema often getbronchitis again andagain, and suffer lung andheart failure.
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SMOKERS v/s NON SMOKERS
NON SMOKERS SMOKERS
16-30 30-50 50+ (Age)
40%70%
15%
96%
35%70%
Smokers are 10X more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers. Male smokers have a lower sperm count. Female smokers have more trouble getting pregnant.Smoking multiply by 5 the risk of death from heart disease.In younger people, 3 out of 4 deaths from heart disease are due to smokingNon-smokers are fitter than smokers.
Probability to get health problems worldwide (unit : %)
16-30 30-50 50+ (Age)
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Pregnant women who smoke…
Run a higher risk of miscarriage. Develop complications in pregnancy. Are 3X more likely to have smaller babies than average. Smoking reduces the chance of becoming pregnant again,
contributes to inadequate breast milk production andincreases the risk of birth defects.
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Pregnant women who smoke…
Babies are a third more likely to be still born or diewithin the first week if born to smokers.
Babies and children whose parents smoke are twice aslikely to develop respiratory problems such as asthmaand bronchitis.
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Pregnant women who smoke…
Cigarette smoking duringpregnancy increases the risk oflow birth weight, prematurity,spontaneous abortion, andperinatal mortality in humans,which has been referred to asthe fetal tobacco syndrome.
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What is “SECONDHAND SMOKING”?
Secondhand smoke, also known as environmentaltobacco smoke or passive smoke, is the combination ofside-stream smoke, i.e. smoke that is emitted betweenpuffs of burning tobacco (cigarettes, pipes or cigars),and mainstream smoke, i.e. smoke that is exhaled bythe smoker.
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What is “SECONDHAND SMOKING”?
Secondhand smoke is a complex mixture of thousands of gasesand particulate matter emitted by the combustion of tobaccoproducts and from smoke exhaled by those smoking.
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SECONDHAND SMOKING EFFECTS
Secondhand smoke was declared to be carcinogenic. Healtheffects associated with exposure to Secondhand smoke havebeen well documented and include lung cancer, lowerrespiratory tract infections, asthma, cardiovascular disease,eye and nasal irritation and low birth weight in babies ofnonsmokers.
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SECONDHAND SMOKING EFFECTS
If someone in your house or restaurant or office oranywhere around you smokes, you are smoking, too.You, too, can get lung cancer and the other diseases nowknown to be associated with smoking.And you, too, are running the same increased risks tobecome sick and also, incidentally, to die.
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WHAT ARE LEGISLATIVE SMOKING BANS?
Legislative Smoking bans (or smoke-free laws) are public
policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and
health regulations, which prohibit tobacco
smoking in workplaces and other public spaces.
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LEGISLATIVE SMOKING BANS
help reducing secondhandsmoke exposure, smokingprevalence and tobaccoconsumption.
have significantly around the world lowered hospitalizationFor heart attacks, Strokes, and asthma.
have dramatic and immediate impacts on health and theassociated medical costs
LEGISLATIVE SMOKING BANSSmoke-free laws
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SMOKING BANS IN LEBANON
According to Law number 174: As of 3 September 2012,
smoking has been prohibited in enclosed public places
such as restaurants, cafes, and hotel. Anybody violating this
ban will be charged with a fine of over 100$, and the
restaurant, the cafe or the hotel will be charged with a fine
between 1300$ and 4000$.
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SMOKING BANS IN LEBANON
The association has called for excluding entertainment businessesfrom the ban, including pubs, nightclubs and nargileh cafes andhas asked that indoor smoking be allowed in venues with properventilation and age restrictions.
The anti-tobacco legislation has faced the criticism of the
associations of restaurants and hotels that have called for
amending it. They argue that it would cut business and drive some
establishments to bankruptcy.
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And now…
Make healthy informed choices about smoking
If you see someone smoking in a public place ask him to stop
Educate self and others about smoking dangers
If your family/friends smoke…ask them to stop
L/O/G/O
6TH GRADE
THANK YOU!