Smoking

Did you know …?Cigarettes smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals and69 are known to cause cancer.

CONCEPT

What are the characteristics of a smoker?

Cigarette - ETYMOLOGY

Symptoms and signs

Of cigarette smoking

So, why do people smoke? Why is smoking so harmful?

1. Nicotine: is a highly addictive drug which stimulates the nervous system. It also for a certain amount of time improves alertness, memory and much more.

2. It is a Sticky substance contains many toxic chemicals and causes cancer.

3. Carbon monoxide: is a Poisonous gas which reduces amount of oxygen blood can carry. Sometimes leaving you breathless.

Some Causes

There is tobacco and nicotine inside a roll of cigarette. these are the things people who smoke get addicted to.

these two things are deadly and harmful to our body and brain.

A person who smokes usually dies earlier then someone who doesn’t.

smoking can lead to blood clotting in the brain and blocked arteries.

Consequences

Everyday in Great Britain about 450

children start smoking

Would you want your child to become addicted

to smoking?

Prevention

How long nicotine stays in your body?

Curious…

Conclusion

Bryan Lee Curtis, then 33, holds son Bryan

Jr., 2, in this March 29 photo. Curtis would

die about two months later. [Photo: Curtis

Family]

Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave a wife

and children alone. In his last weeks, he set out with a message

for young people.

When he still had some strength to leave the

house, kids would stare."They'd come up and

look at him because he looked so strange,"

Louise Curtis said. "He'd look at them and say,

This is what happens to you when you smoke.""The kids would say,

"Oh, man. I can't believe it,' " Louise Curtis said.

By: Damaris Bujato