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ACTIVITY 2: It’s Your Health

For Teachers / Grades 8 & 9 / Activity 2

ACTIVITY 2: It’s Your Health

For Teachers / Grades 8 & 9 / Activity 2

IT'S YOUR HEALTH

Shortness of breath. Heart disease. Cancer. These are just a few of the health consequences of using tobacco products.17
Think they can't happen to you if you use tobacco? Guess again. If you use tobacco or nicotine, you are at risk for many health consequences or diseases. Think you would quit before the consequences set in? Some of the effects happen fast. Young people who smoke report experiencing coughing, wheezing, and phlegm production.18 If you currently smoke, this may all sound familiar. If you don't smoke, don't start - it's that simple!

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. Referenced 2017.



https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/50th-anniversary/
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; Washington, D.C., 2012. Referenced 2017.



https://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/preventing-youth-tobacco-use/full-report.pdf