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Smoking can cause serious health issues and premature death. It contains over 4,000 chemicals that are harmful, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar. Smoking is linked to various cancers, heart and circulatory diseases, and respiratory illnesses. It can negatively impact the lungs, teeth, and overall health. However, stopping smoking has immediate benefits and reduces health risks over time, even if done later in life. Non-smokers have healthier lungs and teeth compared to smokers.

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Smoking Powerpoint (Powerpoint2007 2010)

Smoking can cause serious health issues and premature death. It contains over 4,000 chemicals that are harmful, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar. Smoking is linked to various cancers, heart and circulatory diseases, and respiratory illnesses. It can negatively impact the lungs, teeth, and overall health. However, stopping smoking has immediate benefits and reduces health risks over time, even if done later in life. Non-smokers have healthier lungs and teeth compared to smokers.

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Smoking

What it really does!

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• In Ireland, 6,000 people die each year in


Ireland from smoking-related diseases.
• Smoking kills an estimated 120,000 people
each year in the UK. It is a major cause of
illness and premature death – on average,
persistent smokers die 10 years younger
than non-smokers.

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Tobacco contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are
harmful. These include:

• Benzene - solvent used in fuel and chemical manufacture (example, oil


refineries)
• Formaldehyde - highly poisonous, colourless liquid used to preserve dead
bodies
• Ammonia - chemical found in cleaning fluids. Used in cigarettes to
increase the delivery of nicotine
• Hydrogen cyanide - poisonous gas used in the manufacture of plastics,
dyes, and pesticides. Often used as a fumigant to kill rats
• Cadmium - extremely poisonous metal found in batteries
• Acetone - solvent found in nail polish remover
• Arsenic - ingredient in rat poison
3
The three main components of inhaled
smoke are :

• Nicotine
• Carbon monoxide
• Tar

all of which can cause disease.

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It is absorbed into the bloodstream and effects the
brain within 10 seconds(lightheaded). If you are a
regular smoker, when the blood level of nicotine falls,
you usually develop withdrawal symptoms such as
craving, anxiety, restlessness, headaches, irritability,
hunger, difficulty with concentration, or just feeling
awful. These symptoms are relieved by the next
cigarette. So, most smokers need to smoke regularly to
feel 'normal', and to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas found in
car fumes, which reduces the amount of
oxygen carried in the blood. Oxygen is vital for
the body’s organs to function efficiently. The
reduction in oxygen changes the consistency
of the blood, making it thicker and putting the
heart under increased strain as it pumps blood
around the body. After Some
Time you could get strokes .
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Tar

Tar contains many substances that is proven to


cause cancer. Irritants found in tar damage the
lungs causing narrowing of the tubes
(bronchioles) and damaging the small hairs in
the nose (cilia) that protect the lungs from dirt
and infection.

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Effects of Smoking and the reasons
to Stop

International studies of millions of people


by government, industry, universities, and
private research institutions have
determined that smoking can cause: 9
Cancers

• Lung cancer (About 30,000 people in the UK die from lung


cancer. Each year 90% of Lung cancers are caused by smoking
in Ireland. Different types of cancers. Mouth, throat and nose
cancer
• Cancer of the larynx
• Oesophageal cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Stomach cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Leukaemia

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Heart and circulatory diseases
• Heart attacks and Heart disease kill 5,017 Irish
people in 2006. About 120,000 people in the UK
die each year from heart disease).
• Arteriosclerosis (Arties) - build up of fatty deposits
in the blood vessels. Causes loss of elasticity in
the artery walls, which can lead to diseases such
as stroke, gangrene and aortic aneurysms.
• High blood pressure

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Respiratory disease and Other illnesses

• Asthma.
• Chronic Polmunary

(About 25,000 people in the UK die each year from this serious lung
disease. More than 8 in 10 of these deaths are directly linked to smoking).
• Increased frequency of colds, particularly chest colds and bronchitis.

• Shortness of breath.
• Headaches.
• Stained teeth, fingers, and hair
• Insomnia.
• Diarrhea and colitis.
• Arthritis.
• Decreased sexual activity
and mental depression.

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• Blood flow to the extremities is decreased (cold hands and feet).
• Smoking decreases the oxygen supply, requiring a higher blood
pressure, thus causing extensive circulatory problems and premature
heart attacks. Smokers have difficulty running and exercising.
• Air pollution (auto exhausts, industry wastes, etc.) increases the lung
cancer rate of the smoker, but not of the non-smoker.
• The time to recover from any specific ill, whether caused by smoking
or not, is much longer for the smoker. Often, a non-smoker will survive
a sickness from which he would have died had he smoked.
• The smoker's body requires more sleep every night. This extra sleep
must come from his spare time. Besides needing more sleep, smokers
don't sleep as well.
• Smokers are sick more often, Smoking destroys vitamins, particularly
vitamin C and the B's. Lower intelligence has been related to smoking.
In fact, smoking is both a cause and an effect of lower intelligence, just
as smoking is both a cause and effect of lower income.

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What are the benefits of stopping smoking?

The benefits begin straight away. You reduce your


risk of getting serious disease no matter what age
you give up. However, the sooner you stop, the
greater the reduction in your risk

It is never too late to stop smoking to gain health


benefits.
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Smokers lungs
Which one would you chose ?

Non smokers lung : Smokers lung 16


Smokers Teeth
Which one would you chose ?

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Benefits of stopping smoking include the following:

– Breathing improves.
– Chest infections and colds become less frequent.
– Reduction in 'smoker's cough'.
– The smell of stale tobacco goes from your breath,
clothes, hair, and face.
– Foods and drinks taste and smell much better.
– Finances improve.

Thank you 18

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