Health

• Impacts of cigarette smoking on

  • Family
  • Environment
  • Community
• Smoking in public places

  • Exposes nonsmokers, especially infants and children, to harmful effects of second-hand and third-hand smoke
  • As a member of the community it is your civic duty to be responsible for the health of the other members of the community
• Destructive effects of smoking on the environment

  • Air pollution
  • Littering caused by cigarette butts
  • Death of aquatic organisms through ingestion of cigarette butts
  • Fires caused by discarded lighted cigarettes
• If you choose to smoke, you are not only risking your health but the health of your family as well
• Third-hand smoke


  Residue from cigarette smoke found in clothes, furniture, and other surfaces after the cigarette has been put out
• Second-hand smoke


  • Also called Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), it is the mixture of the smoke coming from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker
  • Nonsmokers are exposed to second-hand smoke
  • Second-hand smoke is more harmful because the smoke is not filtered unlike the one coming from the other end of the cigarette
  • Second-hand smoke causes diseases in children and adults who do not smoke
• Mainstream smoke

  The smoke that is inhaled into the smoker's mouth and lungs, where toxic ingredients enter the body directly
• Chemicals found in cigarettes

  • Nicotine (also found in bug sprays)
  • Carbon Monoxide (also found in car exhaust)
  • Tar (also used to make roads)
  • Ammonia (also found in cleaning products)
  • Formaldehyde (also used to preserve dead bodies)
  • Hydrogen cyanide (also used in gas chamber poison)
  • Acetone (also found in nail polish remover)
  • Cadmium (used in batteries)
• Every day, about 4,000 teenagers below 18 try their first cigarette. Twenty five percent (25%) of them become daily smokers
• Approximately 1.5 million packs of cigarettes are purchased for minors daily
• On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. About 30% of teen smokers will continue smoking and die early from a smoking-related illness
• Reasons why people are tempted or enticed to smoke

  • Peer pressure
  • Parental influence
  • Advertising and media
  • Self-medication or Stress Relief
  • To feel mature and sophisticated
  • Risk-taking behavior
• Cigarette


  • A cylindrical rolled paper containing dried and shredded tobacco leaves, ignited at one end and puffed at the other end
  • Its main component is nicotine, a stimulant that is highly addictive
  • It also contains approximately 600 other ingredients
  • The smoke coming from it contains more than 7,000 chemicals, 69 of which are carcinogenic or cancer-causing substances
• Gateway drugs


  Habit-forming substances that may not be addictive but may lead to the use of other addictive and dangerous drugs
• Alcohol and cigarettes are considered as gateway drugs. The habitual use of these substances opens the door to the use of other harder drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and others
• Reasons for drug use attributed to gateway drugs

  • Peer pressure
  • Removing problems or tensions