Smoking stinks

Smoking

quit it

By: Akshiv, Pavan and Roshan

Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18

years old.

There are various reasons why people start smoking. The main reasons are PEER

Pressure, Smoking PARENTS and they think

it's Cool.

Women began to smoke cigarettes in the 1920s but not in large numbers until after the Second World War, by which time they were smoking 3.4 cigarettes per adult female per day. Consumption continued to increase until it reached 7.2 cigarettes per day in 1974; it then declined to 5.1 cigarettes per day in 1987

Tobacco was first introduced in the USA in the sixteenth century when it was commonly smoked in pipes by men. Later snuff-taking and cigar smoking became popular among men but it was the invention of cigarette-making machines in the latter part of the nineteenth century that made mass consumption of tobacco possible.By 1919, more tobacco was sold

as cigarettes than in any other form. At first only men smoked cigarettes and their consumption rose steadily until 1945, when it peaked at 12 manufactured cigarettes per adult male per day.

Nicotine is addictive

Tar causes lung cancer and other types of cancer

Carbon Monixide reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the

blood

Particulates damageThe lung's surfaces

TarTar is cigarette smoke causes cancer.

Cancer us a disease in which some cells divide uncontrollably, forming a lump

called a tumors. Many cancers can now be treated, but it is still very difficult to

treat cancer in the lungs.

Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of developing all types of cancer, but

especially lung cancer.

Carbon monoxideCarbon monoxide is an invisible gas.

It combines with the hemoglobin inside red blood cells. This means that they cannot carry as much

oxygen

NicotineNicotine is a drug. A drug is a substance that

changes the way the body works. Some drugs, for example aspirin and antibodies - are useful. However, nicotine is a harmful

drug.

Nicotine is addictive. This means that, once your body has got used to it, it is very

difficult to stop taking it

Smoker's lungs Healthy lungs

It's estimated that trillions of cigarette filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way into our environment as discarded waste yearly.

Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 2 billion pounds.

While they may look like white cotton, cigarette filters are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called cellulose acetate. A cigarette filter can take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose.

The cigarette filter

The filter

SMOKING CAUSES 1 INEVERY 5 DEATHSEVERY YEAR.

Did You KNoW?

A Single cigarettesCONTAINS OVER 4800

Chemicals, 69 OF WICH AREKNOWN TO

Cause CANCER.

DID YOU KNOW?

EVERY CIGARETTE YOUSMOKE REDUCES YOUREXPECTED LIFE SPANBY 11 MINUTES.

Did You KNoW?

ABOUT 69% OF SMOKERS WANT

TO QUIT COMPLETELY

Did you know?

Worldwide

Every DAY.

ARE Smoked

DID YOU KNOW?

15 billion

cigarettes

BREATHING THE AIR INMUMBAI, INDIA, JUSTONE DAY IS EQUIVALENTTO SMOKING 100CIGARETTES.

Did You Know?

EXPOSURE TO SECONDHAND

SMOKE CAUSES NEARLY

50'000 DEATHS EACH YEAR

IN THE U.S ONLY.

Did You Know?

“Quit Smoking Before Smoking Quits You”

A burnt cigarette ash

said: Today its me, because of you!

Tomorrow it will be you , because of me!!!

How to quit smoking???

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved five Stop smoking medication aids all of which are effective. Among these four are nicotine replacement therapies like gum, inhaler, nasal spray and patches which relieve the smoker of withdrawal symptoms and cravings for cigarette without the dangers of carbon monoxide, tar and carcinogens. The other medication is a non-nicotine agent called Zyban or Wellbutrin.

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