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 (!)