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TOBACCO
Tobacco & Youth
Tobacco, Youth & Oregon
16% of high school students currently smoke
3,900 kids under the age of 18 will become new daily smokers each year.
74,000 kids who are current smokers will ultimately die prematurely from smoking
Tobacco Free Kids, 2010
Tobacco
Cigarettes Cigars Hookah Smokeless tobacco
Snuff, chew, plug, nasal snuff
Nicotine
Acts as a stimulant Increases heart rate, blood pressure,
alertness, concentration, memory. May act as mild sedative
Decreases anxiety, irritability, mild depression 3 out or 4 smokers want to quit
75% will quit but start again within one year
Often said to be the most addictive substance
Nicotine & Youth
Immediate health consequences Respiratory problems Addiction Increased risk of lung cancer
Health Effects
Tobacco tolerance
It is possible to build up a tolerance Needing more and more for same effect.
Withdrawal: Severe cravings, insomnia, confusion,
tremors, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, muscles aches/pains, headache, nausea, irritability, anger, depression.
Youth that smoke and stop have the same withdrawal symptoms
Tobacco Use / Mortality
Leading preventable cause of death in U.S. Causes more deaths every year than HIV,
illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle accidents, suicides and murders combined!
Smokers die an average of 14 years earlier than non-smokers.
Mortality
Source: www.cancercontrol.cancer.gov
Ingredients in cigarettes
Over 4000 chemicals are in cigarettes Just to name a few:
Acetone, Ammonia, Arsenic Butane, Cadmium, Carbon Monoxide DDT, ethanol, Hydrogen Cyanide Methane, Methanol, Nicotine Toluene
Social Smoking
What is it? Is it really that harmful?
No safe level of nicotine Still habit forming
Hookah
What is it? A water pipe used to smoke tobacco Has been around for centuries
WHO: “one hour of Hookah smoking exposes the user to 100-200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette.”
Relatively new to the U.S. but is growing among adolescents.
Smokeless Tobacco
Increasing among younger men and boys. Adolescent boys that use smokeless tobacco
increase their risk of smoking cigarettes later in life. (tobaccofreekids.org, 2008)
Currently: 13% of U.S. high school boys use smokeless
tobacco 2% of U.S. high school girls use smokeless
tobacco
Tobacco Advertising & Youth It is illegal in all states to sell cigarettes to
anyone under 18… so why is tobacco and youth an issue?
Children and adolescents are the majority of new smokers and companies know this. First time use likely to occur at approximately
14. Those who do not use tobacco at the age of 18
likely will never start. (CDC, 2008)
Advertising
Companies feel they need to “replace” smokers
Ads therefore target youth
FDA & Tobacco Regulation
Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents Restricts sale, distribution, and promotion of
tobacco products to make them less accessible to youth.
Law goes into effective June 22, 2010
(FDA, 2010)
Tobacco prevention programs Only 69% of students are currently in
schools that require tobacco prevention programs.
Prevention programs need to focus on the short-term for adolescents. Athletic performance Personal appearance
Tobacco Education Programs Well-designed programs should include:
A proven background in prevention Provide education during the formative
years Provide a tobacco-free environment Help preventing other types of drug use as
well.