How Cigarette affects our Health and Its Negative Impacts

Do you SMOKE? Did you know what are the chemicals does it contains? Why do you smoke? How this smoke affects to your health?

A cigarette is a cylindrical rolled paper containing dried and shredded tobacco leaves. Its main component is nicotine, a stimulant that is highly addictive. 

A cigarette also contains approximately 600 other ingredients. The smoke coming from it contains approximately 7,000 chemicals, 69 of which are carcinogenic or cancer causing substance. 

    

Why people smoke?

Peer pressure. People who have friends who smoke may feel pressured into            doing the same to be accepted.

Parental influence. Those who have parents or guardian who smoke are more likely to start smoking.

Advertising and media. Advertisements of cigarettes portray smoking as exciting, glamorous.

Stress relief. Some people smoke to manage tension and relieve stress from family or from work.

Chemicals that are found in cigarettes

Negative Health Impacts of Smoking

Cigarettes smoking affects every part of the body, both inside and out. The harmful chemicals found in cigarette and in cigarette smoke damage the cells and every organ of the body

Types of Smokers:

Mainstream - is smoke that is inhaled into the smoker’s mouth and lungs. 

Second-hand smoke - is also called  as Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS). It is the mixture of the smoke coming from the burning end of the cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker.

Third-hand smoke -is the residue from cigarette smoke found in clothes,  furniture, and other surfaces after the cigarette has been put out .

*is residual nicotine and other chemicals left on indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. 

What are the impacts of cigarette smoking on the family, environment, community?

On Family

a. smoking around them and letting them inhaled second-hand smoke

b. exposing them to third hand smoke

On Environment

        • air pollution

• littering caused by cigarette butts

•death of aquatic organisms through ingestion of cigarette butts

•fire caused by discarded lighted cigarettes.

On Community

Smoking in public places in your community exposes the non-smokers,  especially the infants and children, to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke.

🎯Answer this Question of the DAY:

1. Now that you know the chemicals in cigarettes and its short -long term effects, will you consider yourself smoking a cigarettes  a year, 5 or 10 years from now? If yes why, if no, why? 

🎯Quiz

2. After you study/review the lesson and answer the question above, you are now ready to take the 🎯Q4: Quiz about Cigarettes. (click the highlighted and underlined word Quiz about Cigarettes. Then, you'll be redirected to the site/form (Activity). 

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