Smoking

Hazardous to Your

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The FactsSmoking:

Is addictive – more than heroine or cocaine Makes your clothes, hair and breath smell Turns your teeth and fingers yellow Increases risk of stroke and heart attack Increases risk of developing diabetes Is the most common cause of lung, throat and

mouth cancer

(Website Source: http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=240&np=158&id=2099)

Some Reasons: Young people are attracted to the image:

Because their friends and family are smokers

Cultural Influences

Source: Children Youth and Women’s Health Service

What are in Cigarettes?

Do YOU know?

Over 4000 Chemicals!!!!(60 of which are carcinogenic)

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Source: www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/whats-in-a-cigarette)

(Source: www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/whats-in-a-cigarette)

What are some of the consequences of

smoking?

Smoking

StrokeLung

Cancer

StomachCancer Throat

Cancer

Emphysema

HeartDisease

BladderCancer

But what does these things really look like?

How do these images make you feel?

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