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TOBACCO and nicotine

This comprehensive overview explores the different types of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco. It highlights reasons why individuals start and abstain from tobacco use, emphasizing the importance of education and awareness of harmful effects such as bad breath, poor complexion, and serious health risks. Key factors influencing tobacco initiation include familial influence, peer pressure, and tobacco advertising. Additionally, it tackles the dangerous chemicals present in tobacco smoke, including nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, underscoring their impact on health.

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TOBACCO and nicotine

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  1. TOBACCO and nicotine

  2. Types of Tobacco • Cigarette/cigars • Smokeless Tobacco

  3. Why People Abstain from Tobacco • Proper education. • Awareness of unwanted effects such as: • Bad breath • Bad odor on clothes and in hair • Poor complexion • Discolored teeth, fingers, and fingernails • Wrinkled skin • Bone loss around teeth, more tooth decay and receded gums • Sore throat • Watery eyes • Impaired sense of smell and taste

  4. Why People Start Tobacco Use • Family members • Tobacco use may seem familiar to children especially if they see adults seems to enjoy doing it. • They may see tobacco use as signals of adulthood and maturity. • Children imitate the action of adults

  5. Why People Start Tobacco Use • Friends who use tobacco • Strong sense of belonging • Friends make tobacco products easily available. • Children imitate the action of adults

  6. Why People Start Tobacco Use • Tobacco advertising • Tobacco shows users as young, attractive and popular people in different activities. Ads try to make you think that you will be like them if you use tobacco products • Movies display heroes that smoke and place ads on magazines which majority of readers are adolescents

  7. Tobacco and its Chemicals • Immediate effects of tobacco use are: • Racing heart • Dizinnes • Watery eyes • Coughing spells • Nausea

  8. Tobacco and its Chemicals • The Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke • Each puff of cigarette contains • 4,000 different chemicals • 1,000 are known to be dangerous • 100+ are known to be carcinogenic

  9. Tobacco and its Chemicals • The 3 main Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke • Nicotine • The drug in tobacco that may act as stimulant and can cause addiction • In its pure form, it is one of the strongest poisons • Can kill through paralysis of breathing muscles • When introduced to the blood stream and brain, it causes rapid heart beat, skin temperature to drop, and blood pressure to rise • It constricts blood vessels which cut down blood flow to hands and feet.

  10. Tobacco and its Chemicals • The 3 main Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke • Tar • The dark, sticky mixture of chemicals that is formed when tobacco burns • Turns fingers and teeth into brown when it sticks to them. • It sticks to the delicate cells of the respiratory system • It damages the cillia • Tar contains hundreds of carcinogens

  11. Tobacco and its Chemicals • The 3 main Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke • Carbon monoxide • Poisonous, colorless, odorless gas • Has greater attraction for the oxygen carrying molecules (hemoglobin) in the RBC than oxygen does. Thus, depriving blood from its much needed oxygen • CO makes it hard for the oxygen that is left in the blood to reach muscles and organs • As a result, the heart pumps harder but accomplishes less

  12. Chemicals in Smokeless Tobacco • It has the same chemicals in cigarettes and cigars but of course, minus the carbon monoxide. • 1 can of smokeless tobacco delivers as much nicotine as 60 sticks of cigarettes

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