this is the berief description of the how lungs affect with smoking

1. Smoking and Your
Lungs

2. Human Respiratory System
• The human respiratory
system consists of nasal
passages, pharynx.
larynx, trachea, bronchi,
bronchioles, alveoli and
lungs.
• It is designed to bring
fresh oxygen in and
exchange it for carbon
dioxide which is then
removed from the body.

3. Healthy Lungs
• These photos show
the lungs of a healthy
individual.

4. Smokers Lungs
• These photos show
the lungs of a smoker.

5. Can you see a difference?

6. Effects of Smoking Tobacco
• The next few slides
will outline for you
how smoking tobacco
can harm your lungs.
• It will explain the
effect of smoking on
specific parts of your
respiratory system.

7. How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs
• Smoking will damage
your lung’s natural ability
to clean and repair
themselves.
• This means cancer
causing chemicals will be
trapped in the tissues of
your lungs.
• This is because the cilia
and mucus lining are
damaged an cannot
remove the chemicals

8. How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs
• Smoking will
permanently damage
the alveoli and make
it very difficult to
breathe.
• The smoke reduces
the ability of the
alveoli to stretch
which makes it hard
for you to take in
oxygen.

9. Signs of Lung Damage from
Smoking
• Feeling out of breath when walking up a
short flight of stairs.
• Coughing (smokers cough)
• Spitting up mucus
• Reoccurring chest infections

10. Other side effects of smoking
• Can lead to health problems such as heart
disease, stroke, emphysema, and COPD.
• Smoking can lead to many types of cancer
including lung, throat, stomach, and
bladder cancer.
• Increased risk of osteoporosis, pneumonia
and bronchitis.
• Can cause fertility problems.

11. Other side effects of smoking
• Unhealthy skin – smoking can prevent
oxygen and nutrients from getting to the
skin which causes wrinkles.
• Yellow teeth and Bad breath – persistent
bad breath known as halitosis.
• Hair and clothes smell bad
• Reduced athletic performance
• Increased risk of illness.

12. What causes all the damage?
• The following slide is a list of some of the chemicals
found in cigarettes.
• There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes and many of
them are known causes of cancer!

13. Chemicals in Cigarettes!
• Carbon monoxide (found in car exhaust)
• Arsenic (rat poison)
• Ammonia (found in window cleaner)
• Acetone (found in nail polish remover)
• Hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison)
• Napthalene (found in moth balls)
• Sulphur compounds (found in matches)
• Lead
• Volatile alcohol
• Formaldehyde (used as an embalming fluid)
• Butane (lighter fluid)

15. What about nicotine?
• Nicotine is a drug found in tobacco plants.
• It is a lethal poison and it can kill a person
in less than an hour if it is injected into the
bloodstream.
• Each cigarette contains very tiny amounts
of nicotine that over time cause you to
become addicted to cigarettes and causes
many health problems.

16. Kicking the habit
• If you are a smoker it
is never to late to
quit.
• Although some
damage is permanent
people who quit will
notice a significant
difference in their
health issues.
• There is help if you
need it!