Preventing Tobacco use among Youths and Adults

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Cigarette Smoking isn't cool

•Cigarette smoking causes deaths of nearly

480,000 people in the United States alone.

•It causes more deaths than a combination of

HIV, alcohol use, illegal drug use, motor

vehicle injuries, and firearm related incidents

•Sadly enough, majority of this deaths are

premature in nature

• Risk of death from smoking has increased in

the last 50 years in both men and women

•This is the reason why I selected this topic.

My main aim is to reach out to all smokers in

order to cut down on deaths resulting from

smoking

Use of tobacco by teens

Use of tobacco by adults

The Problem

•Every day, more than 3200 individuals below

18 years smoke their first cigarette

•Approximately 2100 youths and adults

become smokers

•About 1:5 adults and teenagers smoke

•In 2011 alone, almost 20% of U.s adults

smoked cigarettes

•Another 18% of high scholars in USA smoke

cigarettes

Why smoking cigarettes is harmful

•Most cigarette smokers end up suffering

from major health effects which cause their

death

•Research shows an estimated 20 million

Americans to have succumbed from cigarette

smoking since 1964

•2.5 million of this deaths have been through

second hand exposure to cigarette smoke

•8.6 million people have a serious disease

caused directly by smoking

•Smokers die premature deaths by up to 13

to 14 years younger than non smokers

Respiratory health problems

•Approximately 9 in 10 lung cancers are due

to smoking cigarettes

•Almost 8 in 10 cases of chronic obstructive

pulmonary disease are due to smoking. COPD

has no cure

•Smoking increases your chances of getting

Tuberculosis and dying from it

•IN young children and teens, is smoking

slows down lung growth

•Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in

men and women in the USA.

Effect of Smoking on Our body

Why you should quit smoking

•You will cut your cardiovascular risks of

getting a heart attack

•Your risk of getting a stroke will fall sharply

once you stop smoking

•Your health risks for other cancers will also

drop tremendously once you stop smoking

•Your risk of getting a lung cancer drops by

half ten years after you quit smoking

references

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august 2015

• Jha, P., Ramasundarahettige, C., Landsman, V., Rostron, B., Thun, M., Anderson, R. N., ... & Peto, R. (2013). 21st-century

hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(4), 341-350.

• CDC (2015). Health effects of cigarette smoking. Retrieved from

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/ on 14th august 2015

• A report of the surgeon general (2012). Preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults. Retrieved from

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2012/consumer_booklet/pdfs/consumer.pdf on 14th august 2015

• American cancer society (2014). Questions about Smoking, Tobacco and Health. Retrieved from

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/questionsaboutsmokingtobaccoandhealth/questions-about-smoki

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