Tobacco FactsBy Rachael DuvalWellness Choices

PE 2850Winterim 2010

MoneyIf every smoker

would smoke one less cigarette per day it would cost the tobacco industry one to two billion dollars per year.

FiresIf careless, cigarettes can

cause life threatening fires.  To the right is a picture of a patient who was smoking a cigarette while using home oxygen to treat his chronic obstructive lung disease.  A fire and explosions ignited with extensive burns to the face and inside of the nose.

Secondhand SmokeThe report states

that secondhand smoke is particularly dangerous in children increasing the number and severity of asthma attacks and middle ear infections. 

Tobacco WithdrawalTrying to smoke fewer

cigarettes is often not effective because the patient will compensate his or hers behavior to get more smoke and nicotine out of the cigarettes that are smoked.  Thus, the reduction in health risk is not as great as one would expect. 

Quotes from Tobacco Companies to Market to Children

"Smoking a cigarette for the beginner is a symbolic act. . . . 'I am no longer my mother's child, I'm tough, I am an adventurer, I'm not square.”

"Marlboro's phenomenal growth rate in the past has been attributable in large part to our high market penetration among young smokers ... 15 to 19 years old . . . my own data, which includes younger teenagers, shows even higher Marlboro market penetration among 15-17-year-olds."

Works Citedhttp://www.tobacco-facts.info/cost_to_society.htmhttp://www.tobacco-facts.info/dangers_of_tobacco.htm http://www.tobacco-facts.info/second_hand_smoke.htm http://www.tobacco-facts.info/tobacco_withdrawal.htmhttp://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0114.pdf http://ndn3.newsweek.com/media/25/71014_MoneyHappiness_vl-

vertical.jpg http://drvee.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/cig-and-child.jpg http://scienceu.fsu.edu/content/avoidaddiction/images/

withdrawl.jpg http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/90000/images/

_90003_teen_smokers.jpg http://media.photobucket.com/image/pack%20of%20cigarettes/

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