When people first start smoking, they often notice these changes right away...
More frequent colds, coughs, and flu-like illnesses
Unpleasant odor on fingers, hair, clothes, furniture, and breath
Stains on teeth (and eventually on fingers from tobacco tar)
Shortness of breath and loss of endurance causing decreased energy and athletic performance
Increased mucus in the airway passages
Bronchitis due to swollen airways
Cigarette damage (like holes!) in clothing,
SMOKING ALSO CAUSES...
DISEASE
Damage to the heart and blood vessels occurs in earlier and more often that cancers. Smoking is the leading cause of death from heart attacks and strokes.
CANCERS
Smoking is the leading cause of cancers of the mouth, tongue, throat, larynx (that's your voice box), lungs, bladder, pancreas, and esophagus (that's the passageway between the throat and the stomach). 90% of people with lung cancer are smokers. And by the time more smokers FEEL it, it's often too late. (that means most of them die.)
Smoking may also increase the risk of colon (intestinal) cancer and some types of leukemia.
Lesson Progress
- Introduction
- Tobacco: WHY you should be skeptical
- Major Harmful Ingredients in Tobacco
- Tobacco Risks, Hazards & Costs
- Immediate Effects Noticed by New Smokers
- More Problems Caused by Smoking
- Special Concerns About Smoking
- More Special Concerns About Smoking
- When non-smokers inhale
- Cigars Are Cool?
- Smokeless Tobacco
- Smoking Cessation
- More Ideas for Smoking Cessation
- $ UP IN SMOKE $