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    • 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
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