Health Hazards when Smoking

3 diseases. Heart Diseases, During Pregnancy, Cancer

Heart Disease

• Leading cause of death in U.S.

• Increases the chances of having a heart disease.

• Heart diseases are 28% of U.S. deaths.

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• If you get secondhand-smoke for 1-7 hours a week you risk 24% of getting a heart disease.

• Chewing tobacco or water pipes also effects you too.

Smoking during Pregnancy

Smoking effects to infants

• The child can be born to early, miscarriage, low birth weight which can cause SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome ) (SIDS is the leading death for infants).

• Increases the kids chance of getting asthma.

Effects on Mothers

• Unable to get pregnant.

• Nicotine can be found in breast milk.

• Only 18%-20% moms stops smoking when they get pregnant.

Cancer

• There are many causes and kinds of cancer:

• lung• Oral cavity• stomach • bladder • kidney • and more…

Some static

• Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in US• 1st disease linked to smoking.• More smoking = More chance of getting cancer.

Less smoking = Less chance of cancer.

Lung Cancer

• Lung cancer most common cancer.

• Women + men get lung cancer b/c of smoking.

• Men 22 times and women 12 times more of getting lung cancer.

• “Lower yield of tar” smokes doesn’t decrease chance of lung cancer.

?Smoking doesn’t cause cancer?

• 70% of cancer = nonsmokers 30% = smokers

• Greece of least cancer but most smokers.

• Lung cancer happens because of old age.

• Smoking decreases chance of breast cancer 50%.

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• The diseases we showed were:

• Heart diseases

• Smoking during pregnancy

• Cancer

• Now you know the consequences of what smoking does to you now you decided if you want to smoke or not.