P6 have had visits from the Tobacco Education Team.  We wanted to share some of the shocking and frightening things we have been learning about smoking and cigarettes.

• Cigarettes have between 4000 and 5000 chemicals in them.
• If you smoke, your lungs eventually turn black.
• When you smoke, the air sacks in your lungs fill up with tar.
• When you smoke, your fingers turn yellow.
• If you smoke, other people in your house breathe in the smoke which is called ‘second hand smoke’.
• Tobacco companies try lots of things to get young people interested in smoking like designing packets that are like gadgets and with cigarettes that have a nice taste to start with.
• Smoking can cause lots of different cancers.
• If you smoke it negatively affects every part of your body.
• Smoking can cause blindness.
• The chemicals in cigarettes are things that are also found in bleach, batteries, nail varnish remover, gases (!)