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1) What is the health problem or risk?
1) What is the health problem or risk?
2) What are its causes?
2) What are its causes?
3) Who is at risk?
3) Who is at risk?
4) How can it be prevented?
4) How can it be prevented?
5) Is there a cure?
5) Is there a cure?
3. health prOblem…
Smoking is a huge drain on USA’s
health, health care costs, and
productivity
• Lung Cancer
• Cigarette smoke damages cells. This cell
damage can lead to tumors that often
start in the lungs. Lung cancer can
spread to other parts of the body…
• …Once lung cancer occurs, the cancer
cells can break away from the lungs and
spread to other parts of the body.
4. health risks
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C-O-P-D, refers to a group of lung
conditions including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, which make it hard
to breathe. These conditions can get progressively worse, as further smoking-
related lung damage occurs.
The number of people in the U-S with C-O-P-D is approximately twenty-
four million
5. Smoking makes it easier for clots to
form that can block the flow of blood. A
stroke happens when blood can’t get to
the brain. Cigarette smoke damages the
walls of the blood vessel, and also makes
it easier for clots to form, which
increases the risk for a stroke.
6. risk?
• The Death
• Smoking kills more people
than alcohol, AIDS, car
accidents, illegal drugs,
murders, and suicides
combined
• Fires caused by smoking
annually around the world
• Smoking adds to the damage
from hepatitis
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7. • Exposure to toxins = Increased risk for:
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
causes
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• chronic respiratory illness
• Bladder cancer
• lung damage
• Colon cancer
• Brain cancer
• Kidney cancer
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8. WhO is at risk?
• Society’s Problem
• People who die each year from their own cigarette
smoking: approximately 438,000
• People who die each year from others’ smoking:
approximately 38,000
9. Smoking iS not JuSt a
PerSonal matter
• for family members
↑ lung cancer and heart disease
↑ smoking by children of tobacco users
↑ low birth weight,
sudden infant death syndrome,
asthma,
middle ear disease,
respiratory infections in children of smokers
An estimated 38,000 annual deaths are attributed to
secondhand smoke
10. How can it be Prevented?
Smoking is the number one preventable cause of premature death in
the United States!
• Parents can set a positive example for their children by not smoking
themselves, and keeping their homes smoke-free.
• Schools can provide tobacco prevention programs to educate students
about the dangers of smoking.
• States can pass legislation to increase taxes on tobacco products, pass
and implement comprehensive smoke free indoor air laws, and limit
minors' access to tobacco products.
• youth smoking can be prevented with the combined efforts of families,
schools, communities and policy makers.
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• Staying Smoke-Free
• AWARENESS • PREPARATION
11. Preparing to Quit iS tHere a cure?
Make a personal commitment
Quitting smoking may be the most important step that you can take to
improve your health.
• prepare your mind and body to quit best chance of quitting if you.
• Think about why you want to quit
• Find out how your doctor can help you overcome nicotine cravings
when you quit smoking
• Figure out what changes you can make in your own habits to help
you avoid smoking
