2. Deaths from Tobacco
Today tobacco kills one in ten adults. Six million
people a year die from smoking or other tobacco
related products. One person dies every
3. What is it in
Tobacco is mainly found in cigarettes, cigars, and
smoking pipes. It can also be found in smokeless
tobacco or chewing tobacco. It can also be found
in other harmful drugs.
4. What is Tobacco
Tobacco is a plant that is enriched with nicotine
which is highly addictive. It is taken and made
into drugs or addicting habits. It can be extremely
unhealthy and addictive.
5. What tobacco affects
Tobacco contains thousands of chemicals in it.
About 70 of them are cancer causers that come
mostly in cigarettes. It can affect the entire body
but mostly the brain and lungs when using
cigarettes.
6. Fires from tobacco
Their has been 300000 deaths from fires caused
by tobacco smoking. Without tobacco these
people would never have not died from the
addiction and caused a fire. Fire
7. Second hand smoke.
It causes 600,000 premature deaths per year.
200,000 a year die from exposure to smoke at
work. The Us Enviormental Protection Agency
says it causes most of the lung cancers in america.
8. How many people do it?
There is an estimated 1.3 million people smoke
tobacco. About half of that do smokeless tobacco.
9. What age is is popular.
Most people start smoking before they are 18 .
This is worse because their lungs are still
developing and the smoke is even worse than it is
for adults.
10. What gets people hooked
All the advertisement on TV and internet show
smoking as beauty and “swagger”. People have
friends who do it and peer pressure hooks people
on to smoking. Once you try your hooked.
11. Other Facts about tobacco
• It currently kills 1 out of 10 adults.
• It is leading preventable cause of death.
• Kills half of users.
• It is predicted to raise to 8,000,000 deaths per year by 2030.
• 47.5 % of men smoke.
• 10.3 % of women do.
12. Questions
1. Whats tobacco?
2. IS tobacco addictive?
3. Can Fires be started from using tobacco?
13. Summary
Overall tobacco is a big killer of Americans. It
think tobacco should not be allowed to be used by
common people. I think it is annoying smelling all
the smoke by the people smoking on the streets.
It is a killer and it needs to be dealt with better.