Post on 13-Apr-2017
• WHAT IS THE “SMOKE FREE CLASS”?: A European school-based smoking prevention programme organized by Madrid’s Regional Government.
• WHAT HAVE WE DECIDED? To be a non-smoking class for a period of six months.
• WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Promise not to smoke during the competition.
• What have we learned? Activities to learn about smoking and its effects on people.
SLOGANS TO PREVENT SMOKING.
History of Tobacco
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• In 1492: Colombus brought tobacco. When the settlers arrived in America, consumption was already spread throughout the continent.
• 16th Century: France, Spain and Portugal.• Decade of 1560: Jean Nicot praises the medicinal
properties.
TOBACCO ARRIVED FROM AMERICA
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• In the sixteenth century was already known the existence of tobacco across Europe and Russia.
• In the seventeenth century it came to China, Japan and the west coast of Africa.
• The final ingredient was discovered in 1864 by an American
farmer.
• The result was a mixture of biting.
TOBACCO PRODUCES DISEASES• In 1938: smokers don´t live as long as no-smokers.• In 1950: cigarette consumption produce lung cancer. • In 1953: Wynder shows that tobacco produce tumors.• In 1981: passive consumption of cigarettes and the lung
cancer.• Nowadays people smokes less than in the past.
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What can we find in a
cigarette?
THREE MAIN COMPONENTSNICOTINE:• Insecticide• Poisonous for the nervous system.• Causes: accelerated heart rate.
CARBON MONOXIDE:• Poisonous.• Decreases the amount of oxygen in blood.
TAR:• Contains many poisonous substances.• Sticks to the cilia in the lungs, that cannot work
properly.• Narrows the bronchioles that transport air.
ADDITIVES
• Additives are chemical compounds used for: - Better flavour - More nicotine - Less smoke
• Cigarettes contain approximately 10% additives.
• Low –tar tobacco and low-nicotine tobacco may contain the same or more additives.
OTHER TOXIC COMPONENTS
How does tobacco affect
our health?
• Many diseases are specifically caused by tobacco.
• Risk of adquiring an smoke-related disease increases with age.
• Life expentancy dicreases.• 4 million deaths
SMOKERS DEVELOP…• Bad skin.
• Bad breath.
• Bad-smelling clothes and hair.
• Reduced athletic performance.
• Greater risk of injury and slower healing time.
• Increased risk of illness.
DISEASES CANCER
PharynxLarynxEsophagus
Lung
PancreasKidney
Bladder
CHRONIC DISEASES
Cerebrovascular accident or stroke
Coronary diseaseChronic pulmonar diseasesAneurism
Chronic vascular diseases
When do people start
smoking?
• Smoking is a strange behaviour. People knows it is bad for their health, but many still do it.
• Many smokers that have managed to quit smoking afirm to miss it.
• Tobacco has addictive substances.
• Most teenagers try smoking in secondary school. Many of them pick up the habit.
• Publicity, movies and magazines can be an important factor for people who starts smoking.
• Many campaigns for smoking prevention have teenagers as their main targets but they are not very efficient.
WHEN DO PEOPLE START SMOKING?
27%
25%21%
16%
11%
18 years old16 years old14 years old12 years oldAfter 18 years old
Smoking habits in
young people and adults.
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• Idols on TV or photographs.
• Want to be ‘cool’ with their friends and when they try to stop, it’s too late.
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YOUNG PEOPLE
• Teenagers who didn’t stop smoking.• Stress• Avoid getting fat• Work• Routine
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What happens when people
stops smoking?
BENEFITS
First of all:Benefits for people of all ages.
Secondly:The ex-smokers live longer than smokers.
Benefits for women: Pregnant women: reduce the danger of disease in babies.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SOMEONE STOPS SMOKING?· 20 minutes after: Blood pressure returns to normal. · 8 hours after: Nicotine levels return to normal.· 12 hours after: Blood oxygen and carbon monoxide return to normal levels.· 48 hours after: Sense of smell and taste improve. · 72 hours after: Breathing is becoming easier.· 2 weeks to 3 months. Heart attack risk drops. · 3 weeks to 3 months: Circulation Improves· 1 year after: Risk of coronary disease drops.· 5 to 15 years after: Risk of stroke decreases. · 15 years after: Coronary heart disease is the same as a non smoker