• WHAT IS THE “SMOKE FREE CLASS”?: A European school-based smoking prevention programme organized by Madrid’s Regional Government.

• WHAT HAVE WE DECIDED? To be a non-smoking class for a period of six months.

• WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Promise not to smoke during the competition.

• What have we learned? Activities to learn about smoking and its effects on people.

SLOGANS TO PREVENT SMOKING.

History of Tobacco

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• In 1492: Colombus brought tobacco. When the settlers arrived in America, consumption was already spread throughout the continent.

• 16th Century: France, Spain and Portugal.• Decade of 1560: Jean Nicot praises the medicinal

properties.

TOBACCO ARRIVED FROM AMERICA

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• In the sixteenth century was already known the existence of tobacco across Europe and Russia.

• In the seventeenth century it came to China, Japan and the west coast of Africa.

• The final ingredient was discovered in 1864 by an American

farmer.

• The result was a mixture of biting.

TOBACCO PRODUCES DISEASES• In 1938: smokers don´t live as long as no-smokers.• In 1950: cigarette consumption produce lung cancer. • In 1953: Wynder shows that tobacco produce tumors.• In 1981: passive consumption of cigarettes and the lung

cancer.• Nowadays people smokes less than in the past.

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What can we find in a

cigarette?

THREE MAIN COMPONENTSNICOTINE:• Insecticide• Poisonous for the nervous system.• Causes: accelerated heart rate.

CARBON MONOXIDE:• Poisonous.• Decreases the amount of oxygen in blood.

TAR:• Contains many poisonous substances.• Sticks to the cilia in the lungs, that cannot work

properly.• Narrows the bronchioles that transport air.

ADDITIVES

• Additives are chemical compounds used for: - Better flavour - More nicotine - Less smoke

• Cigarettes contain approximately 10% additives.

• Low –tar tobacco and low-nicotine tobacco may contain the same or more additives.

OTHER TOXIC COMPONENTS

How does tobacco affect

our health?

• Many diseases are specifically caused by tobacco.

• Risk of adquiring an smoke-related disease increases with age.

• Life expentancy dicreases.• 4 million deaths

SMOKERS DEVELOP…• Bad skin.

• Bad breath.

• Bad-smelling clothes and hair.

• Reduced athletic performance.

• Greater risk of injury and slower healing time.

• Increased risk of illness.

DISEASES CANCER

PharynxLarynxEsophagus

Lung

PancreasKidney

Bladder

CHRONIC DISEASES

Cerebrovascular accident or stroke

Coronary diseaseChronic pulmonar diseasesAneurism

Chronic vascular diseases

When do people start

smoking?

• Smoking is a strange behaviour. People knows it is bad for their health, but many still do it.

• Many smokers that have managed to quit smoking afirm to miss it.

• Tobacco has addictive substances.

• Most teenagers try smoking in secondary school. Many of them pick up the habit.

• Publicity, movies and magazines can be an important factor for people who starts smoking.

• Many campaigns for smoking prevention have teenagers as their main targets but they are not very efficient.

WHEN DO PEOPLE START SMOKING?

27%

25%21%

16%

11%

18 years old16 years old14 years old12 years oldAfter 18 years old

Smoking habits in

young people and adults.

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• Idols on TV or photographs.

• Want to be ‘cool’ with their friends and when they try to stop, it’s too late.

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YOUNG PEOPLE

• Teenagers who didn’t stop smoking.• Stress• Avoid getting fat• Work• Routine

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What happens when people

stops smoking?

BENEFITS

First of all:Benefits for people of all ages.

Secondly:The ex-smokers live longer than smokers.

Benefits for women: Pregnant women: reduce the danger of disease in babies.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SOMEONE STOPS SMOKING?· 20 minutes after: Blood pressure returns to normal. · 8 hours after: Nicotine levels return to normal.· 12 hours after: Blood oxygen and carbon monoxide return to normal levels.· 48 hours after: Sense of smell and taste improve. · 72 hours after: Breathing is becoming easier.· 2 weeks to 3 months. Heart attack risk drops. · 3 weeks to 3 months: Circulation Improves· 1 year after: Risk of coronary disease drops.· 5 to 15 years after: Risk of stroke decreases. · 15 years after: Coronary heart disease is the same as a non smoker