SMOKING Types of Tobacco Smoking Chew CigarsPipes What

SMOKING

Types of Tobacco • Smoking • Chew • Cigars/Pipes • What “type” of people use these items?

What does it do to our body? • • Effects of smoking on the body Bill Nye Effects of Smoking Everybody Knows Ad If we know the effects of smoking on our bodies, why do people still smoke?

Tobacco is the only legal product sold that is DEADLY when used exactly as the manufacturer intended • 45, 000 people die each year in Canada due to smoking related illnesses - over 1000 of them from second-hand smoke. • That's more than five times the number of Canadians who die from traffic injuries, alcohol abuse, murder and suicide combined.

85% of smokers start before their 16 th birthday. 50% of all smokers die from smoking.

Nicotine is a powerful mood-altering substance that is extremely toxic and addictive

What does Nicotine do? • Takes 7 seconds for 1/4 of the nicotine to go straight to the brain. • Causes your brain to release a chemical called Dopamine. • It's Dopamine that gives you a false sense of well-being, and soon the body wants more and more Dopamine on a regular basis. This is the beginning of an addiction. • 80% of young people who try 2 cigarettes or more go on to battle a life-time of addiction.

Tobacco Ads • Video 1 • Video 2 - Graphic

The new Smoking - Vaping? • Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol, often referred to as vapor, which is produced by an ecigarette or similar device. The term is used because ecigarettes do not produce tobacco smoke, but rather an aerosol, often mistaken for water vapor, that actually consists of fine particles. Many of these particles contain varying amounts of toxic chemicals, which have been linked to cancer, as well as respiratory and heart disease. • •

E- Cigarettes/Vaping is it safer then smoking? You be the judge… • Vaping • 60 mins Vaping Good or Bad? • Lung Dr talks about Vaping • RISK? • Driving with a seat belt – Driving without one

They said Smoking was ok for your health? • Video 1 (Flinstones) • Video 2 (DR) • Youths react to smoking ads

• Grade 7 & Health assignment • Choice one: • Make an anti - smoking poster using the information from class. • Choice two: • Write a letter to a smoker on the risks and why they should get help to quit. • Use information from class in your letter.