TOBACCO

CESSATION
B R I T TA N Y PA R RY
H E A LT H 3 1 0 0
WHAT IS TOBACCO?
• Tobacco is a green leafy plant that when
the leaves of the plant are cured, becomes
the product that is used for smoking in
cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and
chewing tobacco.

• Nicotine is the compound within the plant

leaves that is responsible for highly
addictive state.
CIGARETTES
There are 7,000 Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke. There are APPROXIMATELY 600 ingredients in
cigarettes and ATLEAST 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer.

WARNING, THE FOLLOWING ARE INGREDIENTS IN

CIGARRETTES…
Try Your Luck at the Wheel of
R E S U LT S O F
ConsequenCes…. SMOKING

The overall mortality among both

male and female smokers in the US
12 Different Chronic
Types of Obstructive is estimated to be three times
Cancer Pulmonary HIGHER than that among similar
Disease
people who never smoked.
Reproductive effects
Women and More than 480,000 deaths occur
Stroke degeneration in
Male Sexual each year due to smoking
Function (including second hand smoke)

Life Expectancy is ATLEAST 10

Overall Diminished
Blindness, Cataracts, YEARS SHORTER than for
Health
Sight Degeneration Coronary nonsmokers.
Heart
Disease
BIG TOBACCO
Big Tobacco is the five
largest global industry
companies. Together
they generate massive
revenue due to people
being addicted to this
highly poisonous and
dangerous ingredients.
 2 N D HAND SMOKE
M A I N S T R E A M S M O K E I S S M O K E T H AT I S E X H A L E D B Y
THE SMOKER…. SIDE STREAM SMOKE IS THE SMOKE
T H AT C O M E S F R O M T H E L I G H T E D E N D O F A N Y O F T H E
F O R M S O R TO B AC C O

SECONDHAND SMOKE HAS THE SAME HARMFUL

C H E M I C A L S T H AT S M O K E R S I N H A L E . I N V O L U N TA RY
O R V O L U N TA RY, Y O U G E T T H E S A M E A B O U T O F
POISON.
I T B E C O M E S A P R O B L E M AT W O R K , I N P U B L I C P L A C E S ,
AT H O M E A N D I N T H E C A R . T H E R E I S N O S A F E
L E V E L O F E X P O S U R E T O A N Y O N E AT A N Y A G E .
3 RD HAND SMOKE

• Dust from smoking can settle on surfaces

and stay there long after you can no longer
see the smoke in the air. The particles last
for months.
• This residue sticks to clothing, insides of
vehicles, insides of houses, on furniture and
curtains, carpet, bedding and walls. It will
stick to anything inside an enclosed area.
• You cannot simply avoid this residue by
simply ‘airing out the room or vehicle’.
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1.
5. Maintenance
Precontemplation

2.
4. Action
Contemplation

3. Preparation
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