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SMOKING BAN
Rachel Gwaro
CAS 100A
Let’s Support the Smoking BLet’s Support the Smoking Ban
What is smoking ban?What is second hand smoke?Why must we support smoking ban?
The Effects of Second Hand SmokeHealth Hazardous Cigarette Contents
How serious is second hand smoke and what can we do?
Definition of Smoking Ban
Designated smoking areas at the work place.
The prohibition of smoking cigarettes inside home or building premises where children and non smoking individuals could possibly inhale the smoke unvoluntarily.
Secondhand Smoke
A.K.A. Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Mixture of smoke given off by the burning end
of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar & the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers.
Involuntarily inhaled by non-smokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished.
My Stance
I am for the smoking ban 100%
Why must we support smoking ban?
It’s EVERYBODYS air!!
Contents of a Cigarette
Contain over 4,000 chemicals 43 known carcinogenic compounds & 400 other toxins
also known as additives. Ammonia Cyanide Carbon Monoxide Cadmium: Linked to lung and prostate cancer Formaldehyde: Linked to lung cancer Benzene: Linked to leukemia Arsenic Tar Nicotine Urea
Why must we support smoking ban?
Cigarette: Harmful Not Only To SmokersCigarette: Harmful Not Only To Smokers
Cigarette smoking is our nations #1 cause of Cigarette smoking is our nations #1 cause of preventable death. preventable death. Every eight seconds, one dies from tobacco use.Every eight seconds, one dies from tobacco use. States spend $78.1 millions on tobacco prevention States spend $78.1 millions on tobacco prevention programs. (2008)programs. (2008)
Healthy Lung
Smokers Lung- 1 pack a day for 20 years.
Anti-Smoking AD- Secondhand Smoke
Many children, men and women are affected by second hand smoke
From 2000-2004 at least 443,000 people in the U.S. died prematurely each year as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke up from 438,000 deaths in 1997-2001.
The American Lung Association
Extent of Secondhand Smoke
21 million children live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis.
Causes just under 50,000 deaths in adult non- smokers in the U.S. each year. 3,400 from lung cancer 22,700-69,600 from heart disease.
American Lung Association.
Cigarette Smoking Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YjrkBYDDQM&feature=related
Why must we care?Why must we care?
Causes diseases and premature death in children and adults who don’t smoke.
Secondhand smoke spread hundreds of carcinogenic chemicals such as vinyl chloride & hydrogen cyanide.
What’s in a cigarette?
3 Most Harmful Contents Nicotine-drug in
tobacco leaves. Can be smoked,
chewed, or sniffed.
Carbon Monoxide-Colorless, odorless gas.
Tar-Rests in lungs.
Secondhand Smoke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-ZEOiYPgE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsLn4cZmZ4
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States With AL LA OR AK ME RI AZ MD SD AR MA TN CA MN UT CO MT VT CT NV WA DE NH WI D.C. NJ PA FL NM GA NY HI ND ID OH IL OK
States Without IN IA KY MI MS MO NE NC SC TX VA WV WY
Bibliography
1. The Fight Against Big Tobacco, Mark Wolfson, 2001
2. Smoking Bans, David L. Hudson Jr. 2004
3. Smoking Who Has the Right, Jeffrey A. Schaler & Magda e. Schaler. 1998
4. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4559
5. http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422
6. http://www.healthwellnc.com/TRUstories/TerrieText.html
7. http://www.healthwellnc.com/trustories/default.htm
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsLn4cZmZ4
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRzypVmfJM
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdvlpXjnM8
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl81Pq4aOOo&feature=related
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