Tobacco Power Point

Facts about tobacco

Statistics

Youth tobacco use and trends

Main Ingredients

• Tar
• Thick, dark, sticky fluid from burning tobacco
• Damages the alveoli (lung air sacs)
• Destroys lung tissue
• More likely to get pneumonia, bronchitis, etc…

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• Carbon Monoxide
• Colorless, odorless, poisonous gas
• Blood actually bonds 70x faster to this than oxygen
• Increases high blood pressure and other heart problems

Who smokes?

• Each day, more than 3,200 people under 18 smoke their first cigarette, and approximately 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers.
• 9 out of 10 smokers start before the age of 18, and 98% start smoking by age 26.
• 1 in 5 adults and teenagers smoke.
• In 2011, an estimated 19% of U.S. adults were cigarette smokers.
• Approximately 18% of high school students smoke cigarettes.
• In 2011, nearly 18% of high school boys were current cigar users.
• From 1964 to 2014, the proportion of adult smokers declined from 42.0% to 18.0%.

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Why is smoking harmful to smokers?

General Health

• More than 16 million people already have at least one disease from smoking.
• More than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking since 1964, including approximately 2.5 million deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
• 8.6 million people live with a serious illness caused by smoking.
• On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.

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Why is smoking harmful to smokers?

Respiratory Health

• Nearly 9 out of 10 lung cancers are caused by smoking. Smokers today are much more likely to develop lung cancer than smokers were in 1964.
• Nearly 8 out of 10 COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) deaths are a result of smoking. Currently, there is no cure for COPD.
• Women smokers are up to 40 times more likely to develop COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) than women who have never smoked.
• Smoking increases a person’s risk of getting tuberculosis and dying from it.
• More than 11% of high school students in the United States have asthma, and studies suggest that youth who smoke are more likely to develop asthma.
• Smoking slows down lung growth in children and teens.
• Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women in the United States, and 90% of lung cancer deaths among men and approximately 80% of lung cancer deaths among women are due to smoking.

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Why is smoking harmful to smokers?

Cancer

• Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia.
• Men with prostate cancer who smoke may be more likely to die from the disease than nonsmokers.

Children

• 5.6 million children alive today will ultimately die early from smoking. That is equal to 1 child out of every 13 alive in the U.S. today.

Diabetes

• Smokers are 30% to 40% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than nonsmokers.

Fertility

• 18 million males over age 20 suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED). Smoking is a cause of ED, as cigarette smoke alters blood flow necessary for an erection.

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Why is smoking harmful to others?

General Population

• An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, including 54% of children aged 3–11 years, are exposed to secondhand smoke.
• Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer,
• Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their lung cancer risk by 20–30%.
• Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their heart disease risk by 25–30%.
• More than 33,000 nonsmokers die every year in the United States from coronary heart disease caused by exposure to secondhand smoke.

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Why is smoking harmful to babies?

Babies

• More than 100,000 of the smoking-caused deaths over the last 50 years were of babies who died from SIDS.
• More than 400,000 babies born in the U.S. every year are exposed to chemicals in cigarette smoke before birth, because their mothers smoke.
• In babies aged 18 months and younger in the United States, secondhand smoke exposure is responsible for:
• 150,000–300,000 new cases of bronchitis and pneumonia annually
• Approximately 7,500–15,000 hospitalizations annually
• Babies who breathe secondhand smoke are sick more often with bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections.

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Why is smoking harmful to children?

Children

• Children are at particular risk for exposure to secondhand smoke: 53.6% of young children (aged 3–11 years) were exposed to secondhand smoke in 2007–2008.
• While only 5.4% of adult nonsmokers in the United States lived with someone who smoked inside their home, 18.2% of children (aged 3–11 years) lived with someone who smoked inside their home in 2007–2008.
• In children, secondhand smoke causes:
• Ear infections
• More frequent and severe asthma attacks
• Respiratory issues, including coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath
• Respiratory infections, including bronchitis and pneumonia
• An increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

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Who uses smokeless tobacco?

• 15% of high school boys use smokeless tobacco, and an estimated 9% of all high school students use smokeless tobacco.
• 3.5% of all adults use smokeless tobacco.
• Among the 50 states and DC, smokeless tobacco use was highest in Wyoming (9.1%), West Virginia (8.5%), and Mississippi (7.5%).
• In all 50 states and DC, smokeless tobacco use was significantly higher among men than women; smokeless tobacco use among men ranged from 2.0% (DC) to 17.1% (West Virginia).
• Data suggests that men, young adults (aged 18–24 years), and those with a high school education or less are more likely to use smokeless tobacco.

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How is smokeless tobacco harmful?

• Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents (carcinogens).
• Smokeless tobacco is a known cause of cancer; it causes oral and pancreatic cancer.
• Smokeless tobacco is also strongly associated with leukoplakia—a precancerous lesion of the soft tissue in the mouth that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off.
• Smokeless tobacco is associated with recession of the gums, gum disease, and tooth decay.
• Smokeless tobacco use during pregnancy increases the risks for preeclampsia (i.e., a condition that may include high blood pressure, fluid retention, and swelling), premature birth, and low birth weight.
• Smokeless tobacco use by men causes reduced sperm count and abnormal sperm cells.
• Smokeless tobacco contains nicotine, and using it leads to nicotine addiction and dependence.
• Adolescents who use smokeless tobacco are more likely to become cigarette smokers.

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E-cig facts

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are battery operated products designed to turn nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor. You then inhale the vapor. These products are often made to look like:

• Cigarettes
• Cigars
• Pipes
• Pens

Vaporizers, vape pens, hookah pens, electronic cigarettes (E-Cigarettes), and e-pipes are some of the many types of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).

Statistics about E-cig Use

• More than 3 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2015, up from an estimated 2.46 million in 2014.1, 2
• Sixteen percent of high school and 5.3 percent of middle school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2015, making e-cigarettes the most commonly used tobacco product among youth for the second consecutive year.1
• During 2011-2015, e-cigarette use rose from 1.5 percent to 16.0 percent among high school students and from 0.6 percent to 5.3 percent among middle school students.1
• In 2013-2014, 81% of current youth e-cigarette users cited the availability of appealing flavors as the primary reason for use.3
• In 2014, 12.6% of U.S. adults had ever tried an e-cigarette, and about 3.7% of adults used e-cigarettes daily or some days.4

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What happens when I quit?

Tobacco and nicotine are addictive like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. When you stop smoking or cutback your tobacco use, you experience withdrawal. When going through withdrawal you may experience:

• Anxiety
• Irritability
• Headache
• Hunger
• Cravings for cigarettes and other sources of nicotine

Nicotine withdrawal is short-lived and symptoms pass in time, usually less than a week. Withdrawal is the most uncomfortable part of quitting, but the real challenge is beating long-term cravings and staying away from tobacco.

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Get on the Path to A Healthier You

If you quit smoking right now…

Within 20 minutes: Your heart rate and blood pressure drop.¹

Within 12 hours: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.²

Within 3 months: Your circulation and lung function improves.³

Within 9 months: You will cough less and breathe easier.⁴

After 1 year: Your risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half.⁵

After 5 years: Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder are cut in half. Your risk of cervical cancer and stroke return to normal after 5 years.⁶

After 10 years: You are half as likely to die from lung cancer. Your risk of larynx or pancreatic cancer decreases.⁷

After 15 years: Your risk of coronary heart disease is the same as a non-smoker’s.⁸

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More aids to help you quit smoking

With e-cigarettes there are many unknowns, including the unknown health effects of long-term use. Currently, there are no e-cigarettes approved by FDA for therapeutic uses so they cannot be recommended as a cessation aid. For smokers who want to quit cigarettes there are FDA approved treatments which have been proved to be safe and to work, including:

• Nicotine gum
• Nicotine skin patches
• Nicotine lozenges
• Nicotine oral inhaled products
• Nicotine nasal spray
• Zyban
• Chantix

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Works cited

https://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/about-tobacco/facts-figures/

https://www.google.com/search?q=free+e+cig+images&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKl-rplcvNAhXMy4MKHaa9ACYQ_AUICCgD&dpr=1#q=free+e+cig+images&tbm=isch&tbs=sur:fc

http://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/gallery/quit-infographic-text.html

http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/ProductsIngredientsComponents/ucm456610.htm

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http://ash.org/resources/tobacco-statistics-facts/

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