Effects of Tobacco Use

1. Effects of Tobacco Use Lesson 3

2. The Georgia Performance Standards for Health Education are content standards and provide an outline for curriculum development. • https://www.georgiastandards.org/Standards/Pages/BrowseStandards/HealthEd.aspx

3. HE H.S.4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. • c. Summarize how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others. • HE H.S.5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. • e. Analyze the potential short-term and long-term impact of each decision on self and others.

4. Is smoking worth the short and long term effects it has on one’s body?

5. Short Term Effects of Tobacco Use • Ashtray breath • Discolored teeth, fingers, fingernails • Smelly hair and clothes • Cigarettes burns in car, on clothes • Dry skin • Cracked lips, white spots, sores, and bleeding in the mouth (chewing tobacco) • Hacking cough • Build up of phlegm in the lungs and throat • Weakened immune system • Decreased sense of smell and taste • Increased heart rate and blood pressure • Sore throat

6. Long Terms effects of Tobacco Use • Emphysema: a severe condition which causes a shortness of breath • Addiction • Endurance Loss • Loss of taste and smell • Cancer • Wrinkled skin, stained nails, stained teeth, aged appearance • Bronchitis • Heart disease • Heart Attack • Death

7. Do you think short or long term effects are worse for the body?

8. Effects on the Respiratory System • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- Disease that results in a gradual loss of lung function, includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Many with COPD have both chronic bronchitis and emphysema • Chronic bronchitis- Condition where the bronchi are irritated. It results in chronic coughing and excessive mucus secretions. • Emphysema- Condition that destroys the tiny air sacs in the lungs through which O2 is absorbed into the body.

9. Human Lungs

10. Facts • Smoking causes even more deaths from other respiratory diseases and heart conditions than from cancer. • If current trends continue, scientists estimate that tobacco will kill about one billion people in the twenty-first century.

11. Cancer • Lung Cancer- the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women • 4 out of 5 cancers are caused by smoking. • More than 85% of all lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. • Only 15% of lung cancer patients survive for more than five years. • Oral Cancer- about 90% of all oral cancers occur in tobacco users • Leukoplakia- result from direct contact with tobacco juices. This is thick, white cancerous spot on the inside of the mouth. *Tobacco users are at risk of cancers of the esophagus, larynx, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder and blood.* Smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world!

12. Oral Cancer

13. Cancer • The people with the highest lung cancer risks are those who: • Smoke the most cigarettes per day • Smoke over long periods of time • Cancer risk is the greatest • Start smoking young

14. Smokeless Tobacco • Smokeless Tobacco contains some of the same chemicals that are in tobacco smoke. • Most tobacco users spit out the excess tobacco juice but some is swallowed. The tar and chemicals get into your digestive tract causing health problems. • Cancer of the mouth, gum, jaw, and tongue.

15. Smokeless tobacco users experience…. • Gums tend to disappear from around the teeth • Roots of teeth become exposed and most likely will decay • Bad and discolored teeth • Sense of smell and taste is reduced • Lumps in jaw or neck line • Leukoplakia • Bleeding and soreness in the mouth • Difficulty speaking or swallowing

17. Effects of Smoking • Smoking causes immediate damage to a persons arteries. • Each cigarette that is smoked takes 10 minutes of one’s life. • Smoking is the cause of 1 out of 5 deaths in the U.S. • Children that inhale smoke are more likely to develop asthma. • Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day will cost a person about $2000 a year.

18. Effects on Nonsmokers • Passive smoke: secondhand smoke lingering in the environment, smoke can be either be from mainstream or sidestream smoke • Mainstream smoke: smoke that smoker blows off • Sidestream smoke: smoke that comes from burning tobacco

19. Pregnancy and Smoking • Mothers who smoke increase their risks for: • Small fetal growth • Miscarriages • SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) • Stillbirth • Developmental problems • The mother can pass nicotine to the child through breast milk

21. How to check heart rate • Use first 2 fingers and press down on your wrist till you feel a heart beat. This is your artery. • There is one in your neck that can be used also. • Two ways to check: • Count for 10 seconds and multiply by 6 • Count for 30 seconds and multiply by 2

22. Drawing Assignment • Get a packet, a piece of paper, and a pencil. • You are to draw your own person. Be creative with hair, head and body. • Add anything that is related to tobacco products. • This person should advertise the effects that tobacco has on the body. • Follow the example given.

23. Activity • Determining the effects that smoking has on the respiratory system • Walk for 1 minute • Walk with straw for 1 minute • Run for 1 minute • Run with straw for 1 minute • When using the straw try to close your nose. Air should only be coming out of straw. • After each check heart rate