fags, ciggies, fakes, burns, tabs.A nickname for tobacco is: baccy.

	Feel light headed
	Feel as though you are more relaxed
	Feel dizzy
	Feel sick and throw up
	Feel lacking in energy
	Become ill much more often
	It can also make your:
	Fingers yellow
	Breath smell
	Teeth yellow
	Body and clothes smell
	Sense of taste worse
	Sense of smell worse
	Friends not want to be around you because you smell
	Someone you fancy not want to go near you as you smell and taste bad
	Muscles weaker

1 in 2 smokers die from a smoking related illness.

One person dies from a smoking related disease every 4 minutes in the UK. That’s 330 people a day. It’s the same as a Jumbo Jet crashing every day.

Many house fires are caused by carelessly discarded cigarettes.

Smoking 20 cigarettes a day for a year costs about £1500.

Tobacco comes from the dried leaves of the tobacco plant. It is found in cigarettes, cigars and other products. Tobacco is usually smoked but can also be chewed. Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, including arsenic, tar, ammonia hydrogen cyanide and nicotine. Nicotine is a physically addictive drug and the one of the reasons people find it so difficult to give up smoking.

Smokers also get so used to smoking and when they smoke it makes it very difficult to not smoke.

When you smoke, nicotine reaches your brain in 7-10 seconds

It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under age 16.


The benefits of giving up smoking START as soon as you STOP!

	Blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal
	Circulation in hands and feet improve

Chances of a heart attack start to fall

	There’s no more carbon monoxide left in your body
	Lungs start to clear out mucus and other debris

Sense of taste and smell improve

	Coughs and breathing problems get better
	Yellow tobacco stains on the teeth disappear

Lungs have completed their task of clearing out tar and other poisons