1. • FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, LETTERS AND
SCIENCE OF EDUCATION
• LANGUAGE SCHOOL
• Student: Luis Maldonado
• Course: 4to bilingual
• Topic: The Snuff

2. The snuff is an agricultural
product native to America and
processed from the leaves of
various plants of the genus
Nicotiana tabacum. Is consumed
in various forms, the main
producing combustion fumes. His
particular nicotine content makes it
very addictive. Some authors do
not believe nicotine
dependence, as
is afirmarse.1 lawfully
marketed world wide,although in
many countries has
numerous restrictions on
consumption, because of adverse
effects to public health

3. • Definition
• Smoking (inhale and
exhale the
smoke produced by burning
snuff), leads to chronic
poisoning called smoking.
The dried leaves
of the plant are smoked in a
pipe snuff or pure, but the
most widespread form is
the cigar or cigarette.

4. • History
• The snuff is a native plant of America. The
first Europeans who came to
America found that the
Indians smoked the leaves of
snuff pipe, and introduced the practice
in Europe in the mid-sixteenth
century. Later, the French
diplomat Jean Nicot, who should plant the
generic name (Nicotiana), was introduced
to the rest of Europe from where it
spread progressively to the rest of the world.

5. • With the lighting of a
cigarette are
released several com
ponents:
tar, cyanide, benzene,
carbon
monoxide, oxides
of nitrogen and
nicotine just to
name a few.

6. • Snuff Addiction
Nicotine, an alkaloid of snuff, is the main
component when it comes to physical
dependence that creates this habit because it is
a highly addictive drug.
Smoking affects the heart in several
ways. Although most people are very familiar
with the relationship between cigarette smoking
and lung cancer and other respiratory
diseases, many still unaware of this habit as a risk
factor in hypertension and in total
pathology circulatory.
The smoker: Your social environment and needs.
Smoking seems to be, in its origin, the product
of the socialization of the individual. The concept of
socialization denotes the process by which culture

7. Need to enhance their positive
feelings or lessen negative
feelings.
Reasons for Identification with
smoking the environment.
Psychological addiction.

8. • Smoking is the biggest epidemic facing
humanity and, like other diseases that
depend on human behavior is a
high morbidity and
mortality. Legal addiction, consumption is
stimulated freely, at least in our country. Its
impact on the human being understood
when you know that in the U.S. 300,000
people die each year and in our country
with a population nine times less, 40,000.
WHO is currently estimated at 1,000 million
the number of smokers in the world, or
about a third of the population 15 and
older. Out of this total, 800 million live
in developing countries.

9. • Smoking is not only "a
habit" is also a drug, since
the act of
smoking snuff meets all the
criteria that define the use
of a substance as such:
-Existence of tolerance
-Unit
-Withdrawal in the absence
of the same
Compulsive behavior

10. The head of the dependence is nicotine, a
substance with a great power of addiction like other
drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
The form of dependence that smoking generates is:
Physical dependence, caused directly by nicotine
and is responsible for the withdrawal.
Psychological dependence, smoking has become a
company in every situation, after meals, with coffee,
talking on the phone, etc ... and it
seems impossible to change this relationship

11. Why are you quitting?
The main one is that
the use of snuff is the Carbon
leading cause of Tars monoxide, which is
preventable (benzopyrene, and nitro responsible for more
disease and preventabl samines) accounted for than 15% of
e mortality 30% of all cardiovascular
in developed cancers (bladder, kidney disease.
countries. 19% of , pancreas, stomach, et Nicotine produces p
cases of mortality is c..), And 90% of lung hysical dependence.
the cause of snuff cancer. In
prevention. addition, the snuff is
In the snuff multiple the cause
substances found in 80% mortality
much harmful to health. from chronic lung
Among them, notable processes.
for its damaging
effects:

13. • How to Quit Smoking
Smoking cessation is due to undergo a series of temporal processes in
attitude towards the habit and need to go through them in order to adopt an
attitude of neglect.
Stages of smoking:
Precontemplation stage. The smoker enjoys smoking and does not pose
any problem, it is a consonant smoker Ie smoking and are sure he does
well. At this stage, smokers are under 30 years, with no associated
diseases or not to snuff. Nearly half of smokers are at this stage.
Approach phase or contemplation. The smoker is raised and the
possible health consequences of smoking, and some positive to quit. Start
being a smoker dissonant, ie smoke but you think it is wrong to do
so. 30% of smokers are at this stage.
Action Phase. The smoker is obliged to quit, passes to a more
dissonant chord is known that smoking is bad and leaves. This step
is repeated several times in the evolution of the unit will pass to
the contemplation and action repeatedly. 20% of smokers areat this stage.
Consolidation or maintenance phase. One can say that at this
stage are those smokers who take more than 6 months of abstinence. Do
not smoke anything but up to 12 months can not be considered as an ex-
smoker.
Phase of relapse. It occurs in a variable percentage of cases, it will
normally pass to the contemplation stage and take more or less to return to
action. It is accompanied by a loss of self esteem.

14. conclusion
scientifically, smoking is bad not only
for our health but for our family, since this
is something that tends to destroy not only
the health of smoking, but whole
families, we must raise awareness of the
consequences of smoking
and addiction react to the evil we are
doing to the environment, our
health and all the evil that this implies
for entire families.

15. THANK
YOU