Claudia Lopez-Lancheros Terri Morris

Collaborative Health Project

Topic: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Focus Area: Health Consequences of Tobacco

• Number of nonsmoking Americans exposed to second-hand smoke:

126 million

• It accounts for nearly 440,000 deaths each year, of which more than 135,000 are due to smoking related cardiovascular diseases.

• The nicotine in tobacco is the cause of brown staining that is a familiar sight on the teeth of smokers.

• Causes the loss of two teeth every 10 years. If you start smoking a pack a day at age 18 you will lose between four and five teeth

by age 35.

• Experimenting with tobacco puts young people at risk for nicotine dependence.

Consequences of Smoking Tobacco

• Did you know that smoking actually dulls your sense of smell and taste?

• Every year, almost 1,000 smokers and non-smokers are killed in home fires caused by cigarettes.

• Studies have shown that regular smokers are 4 to 10 times more likely to die from cancers of the mouth, larynx, and

esophagus than non-smokers.

• People exposed to smoking will absorb nicotine and carbon monoxide in their body fluids.

•Smokers reach exhaustion before non-smokers do and can’t run as far or as fast as non-smokers.

Consequences of Smoking Tobacco

– Secondhand Smoke

– http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/archive/second-hand-smoke.html

– Cardiovascular Disease – http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3038016

– Detrimental to Oral Health – Nicotine stain on teeth – http://www.simplyteeth.com/category/sections/adult/aboutteeth/staining.asp?category=adultlist&section

=99&page=59

– Detrimental to Oral Health – http://www.dentistryinworld.com/stiri/384-FACTS_ON_SMOKING_AND_ORAL_HEALTH.html

– Nicotine Adiction – http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html?tracking=K_RelatedArticle

– Dull your senses – http://health.utah.gov/precon/avoid/tobacco/

– House Fires – http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/smoking.shtm

– Increase the risk of cancer – http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/cigarsmoking/cigar-smoking-cancer-and-h

ealth

– Smoking: Chemical reactions in your body – http://www.livestrong.com/article/285882-chemical-reactions-involved-in-smoking/#ixzz1PpBqffRE

– Smoking and Physical Activity – http://my.clevelandclinic.org/healthy_living/smoking/hic_smoking_and_physical_activity.aspx