More Special Concerns About Smoking and...
Other Risk-Taking Behavior
Compared with their non-smoking peers, youth who smoke cigarettes are 4 times more likely to use alcohol 12 times more likely to use cocaine, and 14 times likely to use marijuana.
Medicines
Smoking may reduce the effectiveness of certain drugs, including some tranquilizers, insulin (needed by diabetics), theophylline, and some anti-depressants.
Decision-Making
Younger and older people alike often feel pressure to use tobacco products. Some of these pressures come from environmental factors such as advertising, role models, and peers. Others come from inside the person... from things like curiosity or rebellion, or from wanting to lose weight, be accepted or simply "fit in." Being aware of where pressures come from and knowing how to resist them can help people make healthier choices. (For more information about ways to say no, see the Decision-Making Learning Center.)
Fires
Careless smoking is the leading cause of fire death in the United States.
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 $