All Aboard For a Healthy Fairfield

Faith Based Tobacco Prevention ● Healthy & Active Living

Presenter: Cheryl Y. GoodwinSpecial Services Coordinator

Wisdom, Think about it!

Hosea 4:6 states: “My people are destroyed from lack of

knowledge…”

This presentation is designed to get you thinking about an individual’s smoking and/or dipping habits.

Youth Access To Tobacco Prevention Act of 2006

Effective August 21, 2006,It Is Unlawful for a Minor Under the Age of 18

To Purchase, Possess, or Attempt to PossessTobacco Products and/or

To Present False Proof of Age in Order to Purchase a Tobacco Product

Break the Law, Pay the Price…Civil Fines

Court-Ordered Prevention or Smoking-Cessation Program

Court-Ordered Community Service

ACTIVITY 1

THE STRAW GAME

ACTIVITY 2

Blowing more than smoke

“What’s Inyour snack?”

Cigarettes are a toxic pizza of ingredients

Cigarettes and secondhand smoke have over 7,000 chemicals, 70 of which are known to cause cancer

– TAR –

Particle matter made up of dozens of compounds. Some are cancer-

causing substances, others are poisonous, and still others are

harmless. Tar cools and forms a sticky substance in the lungs which damages delicate lung

tissue.

A gas found in car exhausts that drives

oxygen from thered blood cells.

Affects non-smokers who are exposed to

second-hand smoke.

Addiction is…

“A compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. The persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.”

– Merriam Webster’sCollegiate Dictionary,

10th edition

Fairfield Behavioral Health Services

200 Calhoun StreetPO Box 388Winnsboro, SC, 29180Phone: (803) 635-2335Fax: (803) 635-9695www.fairfieldbhs.orgVernon L. Kennedy, Sr.Executive Director