CIGARETTE SMOKING

SMOKING
- A practice in which a substance is burned and the
resulting smoke breathed in to be tasted and
absorbed into the bloodstream.
- Most commonly, the substance used is the dried
leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled
into a small square of rice paper to create a small,
round cylinder called a "cigarette"
 - A tall, leafy plant,
TOBACCO originally grown in
south and central
America, but now
cultivated throughout
the world
 - A thin cylinder of
CIGARETTE finely-cut tobacco
rolled in paper for
smoking
 DANGERS OF SMOKING
- High blood pressure (blood pressure higher than
normal)
- Heart diseases (involves the cardiovascular
system)
- Bad breath
- Body odor
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the airways from the
trachea into the lungs)
 DANGERS OF SMOKING
- Emphysema (damaged air sacs in the lungs)
- Pneumonia (infection of the lungs)
- Asthma (difficulty in breathing)
- Cancer (group of cells grow uncontrollably)
 3 SMOKES PRODUCED BY
SMOKING
- MAINSTREAM SMOKE (smokes that a smoker
directly inhales)
- SIDESTREAM SMOKE (smoke that comes out from
the lighted end of cigarette, known as second-hand
smoke or Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS),
dangerous than mainstream smoke)
- THIRD HAND SMOKE (smoke left for a long time on
objects, known as Residual Tobacco Smoke (RTS)