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 Smoking is
responsible for 30% of all cancers and 25% of
heart disease and costs $12.7 billion a year in
health care and other related costs.**
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Tobacco smoke
contains over 4000 chemicals, at least 43 of
which are known to cause cancer of the mouth,
pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, lung, pancreas,
stomach, kidney, cervix, vulva, penis, bladder
and anus.*
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Nicotine is the
addictive drug in tobacco. The mixture of
nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette
you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate
and blood pressure, straining your heart and
blood vessels. This can cause heart attacks and
stroke. It also slows your blood flow, cutting
off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers
end up having their limbs amputated.*
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Tar coats your
lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer.
A person who smokes 20 cigarettes a day breathes
in up to 150ml of tar in a year.*
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Carbon monoxide
robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of
oxygen, making your whole body - especially your
heart - work harder. Over time, your airways
narrow and let less air into your lungs.*
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strain put on your body by smoking often
causes years of suffering. Smoking causes
disease:
Emphysema
- People with emphysema often get bronchitis
again and again, and suffer lung and heart
failure.
Lung
cancer is caused by the tar in
tobacco smoke. Men and women who smoke are ten
times more likely to die from lung cancer than
non-smokers.
Heart
disease and strokes are also more
common among smokers than non-smokers. Smoking
causes fatty deposits which narrow and block
blood vessels leading to heart attack and
stroke. Smoking causes around one in five
deaths from heart disease. In younger people,
three out of four deaths from heart disease
are due to smoking.
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The
Truth About Tobacco
Uses satirical posters to make fun of tobacco ads,
and then opens students' eyes to how tobacco
advertising manipulates many teens.
It warns about
the power of nicotine addiction, and is critical of
movie stars who make smoking look cool on screen. |
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Life
brings all of us difficult moments and
obstacles -- and when these moments come,
don't escape by using tobacco, drugs, alcohol
or food.
Instead,
stay with your uncomfortable feelings, and
begin to solve the problem Don't isolate and
do this alone. Talk about it to your
parents, a trusted teacher, or the school
counselor. It's by talking about our
difficulties to another person that we resolve
them.Life gets tough at times,but you can
do it!
Patrick
Reynolds |
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