Identifying Tobacco

Products Part 1

Tobacco

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Critical Thinking

What do you think about the current usage of tobacco among teens?

Do you think tobacco use is becoming more popular?

Tobacco Facts

* Data according to a 2012 CDC report

What percentage of high school students use tobacco?

Identifying Tobacco

Tobacco is a plant that contains the drug nicotine.

The plant is dried and turned into various products that people smoke, dip, or snuff.

What is tobacco?

Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that causes addiction.

It gives users a short term buzz that leaves the user craving more and more.

Identifying Tobacco

Tobacco Products

Products That are Smoked

Cigars

Cigarettes

Hookah

Pipes

Can you name these common tobacco products?

Tobacco Products

A cigarette is a short stick of rolled tobacco that usually contains a filter

A Hookah is a pipe that contains water to cool the smoke and has a long tube through which smoke is inhaled.

Tobacco Products

Cigarettes and hookah are inhaled through the respiratory tract via the mouth.

Nicotine from a cigarette or hookah enters the body primarily through the lungs but can also enter through the mouth even if not inhaled.

How does the nicotine from cigarettes or hookah enter the body?

Tobacco Products

A cigar is dark colored stick of rolled tobacco that usually contains no filter

A pipe is a bowl with a tube attached. Tobacco is inserted into the bowl and smoked through the tube.

Tobacco Products

Cigars and pipes are puffed and not inhaled, however, they still possess health risks such as oral cancers.

Tobacco Products

Nicotine from a cigar or pipe enters the body through the mucus membranes of the oral cavity such as the gums or lining of the mouth.

If cigars or pipes are not inhaled how do you think nicotine enters the body?

Aside from the chemicals already in tobacco, smoking produces many harmful chemicals from the tobacco burning.

Tobacco Chemicals

Tar, produced from smoking, is a dark viscous residue that contains many harmful chemicals.

Over time tar stains the teeth, fingernails, and damages the lungs

Tobacco Chemicals

Tobacco Chemicals

Another chemical produced from smoking is carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide (CO)

prevents the red

blood cells from

carrying oxygen.

When the brain and other organs are deprived of oxygen they cannot perform as efficiently.

Tobacco Chemicals

What happens when the brain and other organs are deprived of oxygen?

Tobacco Chemicals

Can you think of any physical tasks that a smoker might find more difficult?

A smoker will have less oxygen in their blood because of carbon monoxide making it more difficult for them to perform certain tasks.

Tobacco Chemicals

Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, 70 of which cause cancer.

How many chemicals do you think tobacco smoke contains?

Some chemicals include:

Arsenic - An ingredient in pesticides

Tobacco Chemicals

Ammonia - An additive in household cleaners

Formaldehyde - Embalming fluid for dead bodies

Polonium - A Radioactive element

Cadmium - Found in batteries

Activity

Assessment

What is tobacco?

Name two tobacco products that are smoked.

What are 2 harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke?

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