Ch. 14 TobaccoWrite a paragraph describing how you plan to spend the last 20 years of your life, or how you would like to live after you retire. Include things like: travel? possessions? house? $$$$?

Write how smoking would affect your retirement plans. Smoking may cut 18 yrs off your life. You now only have 2 years to write about. You may also be unhealthy and have no money.

2 million adult smokers die each year82% of adult smokers took their first cigarette

before age 18Each day 5,000 children light up for the 1st time3,000 of them become regular smokers1 in 5 H.S. seniors smoke regularlyAddictive ingredient: Nicotine

Acts as a stimulant

Smoking 1 pack per day at $5.00 per packWeek $35Month $150Year $1,82510 year $18,25020 year $36,50040 year $73,000Imagine 2 packs per day as some do?

Financial Cost

More than 4,000 hazardous compounds from cigarette smoke

Most harmful is tarCarcinogens: cancer causing agent (50 in

smoke)A 2 pack a day smoker collects about 1 pound

of tar in the lungs each yearEffects:

wrinkles skin, yellow teeth, bad breath, stinksBronchitis, Emphysema, Smokers coughCancer chart on page 380

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Mainstream smoke: smoke that passes through the cigarette into the smokers lungs

Sidestream smoke: smoke that enters the air from the tip of the burning cigarette

ETS: exhaled + sidestreamPassive (2nd hand) smoke kills 53,000 per yearSmoking Ban???

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Smokeless tobacco: called chew or snuffput in lower lip or cheek

Quid is the name for a “dip”Produces the same addiction as smokingOral cancers and mouth soresLeukoplakia- white patches

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Because of addiction, quitting is very tough!!2 ways to quit

gradually- tapering offcold turkey- all at once

Fear of weight gain?? “Hand to mouth”replace cigarette with food

Methods: gum, patches, inhalers

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