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The long term effects of smoking
Year 6
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Young and Healthy – Primary Teaching pack Year 6
Smoking
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The Lungs• The Lungs are paired organs in the chest that
are used for breathing (respiration). • Each lung is between 25 and 30 centimeters
long. • Each day, you take about 23,000 breaths• The air that you breath in contains several
gases, including oxygen, that your cells need to function.
• With each breath, your lungs add fresh oxygen to your blood, which then carries it to your cells.
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More than 600 additives can legally be added to tobacco products.
These include
• coffee extract – caffeine addictive• sugar • cocoa - produces bromine gas that dilates the
airways of the lung• Hydrazine - a very toxic chemical used mainly in
rocket fuel • ammonia compounds - speed the delivery of
nicotine to smokers by raising the alkalinity of tobacco smoke
• Formaldehyde – embalming fluid
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The effect of smoking!york | against |
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Advertising
• 1 August 1965 - All television commercials for cigarettes were banned • 1971 - health warnings on all
cigarette packets.
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Long Term effects on the body from smoking
• Effect on the lungs - shortness of breath, coughing, infections like pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, Emphysema (collapse of the small airways in the lungs), cancer
• Effects on the heart and circulation - Heart attack and other coronary diseases, Gangrene due to a decreased blood flow to the legs
• Reduced overall fitness and appearance Difficulty recovering from minor illnesses, more colds as compared to non-smokers, yellowish stain on fingers and teeth, facial wrinkles appear at an early age, making them look older than non-smokers of the same age
• Different kinds of cancers - throat, mouth, bladder, kidney and stomach
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Facts about Cigarettes• Tobacco use kills around 111,000 people in the UK every year, more
than 300 every day - as if a plane crashed every day and killed all its passengers, this is around 20% of all deaths.
• About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by
their habit. • 30% of all cancer deaths are linked to smoking.
• Cancers other than lung cancer which are linked to smoking include: cervical cancer, cancers of the mouth, lip and throat cancer, pancreas, bladder, kidney, stomach and liver.
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Short term effects
• Smelly breath• Cost • Clothes smell of smoke• Addiction
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Reasons not to smoke
• Concerned about their health• Don’t want to• Into sport• Other more exciting things to do• Too expensive• Friends don’t• Scared if parents found out
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Reasons?
• To look cool• Show off• Dare devil• Don’t know what it can do to their
health• Can’t harm them• Curiosity• Peer pressure• Boredom• Rebellion
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One person dies every 5 mins from smoking related
causes
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