Harmful Effects of Tobacco May 2014

Health InfoPrepared byPublic Health

Vitalité Health NetworkNovember 2013

Harmful Tobacco Smoke And Tobacco Products

Harmful Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Products

Tobacco smoke contains:

• More than 4,000 chemicals, including at least 70 that are known to cause cancer.

What ingredient in tobacco is responsible for causing dependency?

• Nicotine produces an enjoyable sensation in the brain by increasing dopamine production, which consequently leads to addiction and physical dependence

Harmful Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Products

Harmful Tobacco Smoke And Tobacco Products

• Tar is produced when smoking cigarettes. It sticks inside your mouth and to the walls of your pharynx and lungs.

• Tar is the main cause of throat and lung cancer

Tar the roads, not your lungs

• Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day for a year, will produce one cup of tar which will accumulate in your lungs.

• Tar is also the substance responsible for the yellow stains on your fingers and on your teeth.

• Arsenic: found in rat poison.• Ammonia: an ingredient in

window cleaner.• Carbon monoxide: one of the

gases produced by car exhaust fumes

Other Harmful Ingredients Found In Tobacco

Everyone has a right to tobacco free air !