Smoking: A pleasure which
kills…
Chemical substances contained
in cigarette.
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Nicotine
Pitch
Carbon dioxide
Carbon monoxide
Heterocyclic
hydrocarbons
Polyaromatic
hydrocarbons
Radioactive elements
Aldehyds
Cancerigenic
compounds
Diseases that smoking can
cause.
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Cancer (skin, stomach, oral
cavity, respiratory system,
alimentary canal.)
Loss of hair
Cataract
Loss of hearing
Ageing of skin
Defected teeth
Emphysema of lungs
Osteoporosis
Heart problems
Stomach ulcer
Discoloration of fingers
Psoriasis
Burger disease
The way nicotine affects some
of the above damages.
 Heart problems
→Nicotine makes vessels
narrower and causes
emission of hormones.
 Breathing difficulties
→nicotine contains
carbon monoxide, which
is more convenient to be
united with the blood’s
haimoglobene than
oxygen.
 Cancer of oral cavity→
genitival modification of
the mouth’s, throat’s or
gums’ cells.
Smoking and statistics.
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33% of the students in the High Senior School have smoked for at
least once and 20, 8% in High Senior School and Junior High
School, smoke systematically.
64% of the students smoke for reasons of showing off, 60%
because of their character’s weakness and only 25% because they
think of cigarette as a symbol of maturity.
Smoking is responsible for the 30% of the cancers that people
suffer from and for the 85% of the lung cancers.
Finally, smoking is responsible for 3.500.000 deaths every year
globally, or, in other words for 10.000 deaths every day!!!
Passive smoking.
 Passive smoking →the procedure during
which a non- smoker inhales all the smog
of a smoker.
 3.000 people die every year only in Greece
because of the passive smoking.
 Only a 15% of the smog is inhaled by the
smoker. The rest 85% fills up the room and
is inhaled by the other people that stay in it
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Smoking and sports.
 Smoking makes
exercise harder
than it is and
causes many
difficulties to
athletes.
 Also, smoking
does not suit to
what sports
represent.
 Stop smoking, or
not starting this, is
very important for
our health, as we
don’t want to be
like this:
Or these:
But like these:
Stop smoking!!